From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5a30d2766af014c4138d00bedc371656@vitanuova.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] paper ``Rio, the Plan 9 Window System'' From: C H Forsyth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-scdppchwlallnbnzkeeyksyhfk" Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:04:37 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d9089baa-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-scdppchwlallnbnzkeeyksyhfk Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it might be worth noting that another paper, ``A Concurrent Window System'', is helpful in understanding the underlying model and to a useful extent the internal structure of rio and its use of Channels (thread(2)). --upas-scdppchwlallnbnzkeeyksyhfk Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@vitanuova.com id 1028811045:20:11716:102; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:50:45 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2121336; 8 Aug 2002 12:50 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.23.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9EE8219A02; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 08:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com (plan9.bell-labs.com [204.178.31.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 7820719A02 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 08:49:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <912418b08142b7626f8a45c18bb299ae@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] paper ``Rio, the Plan 9 Window System'' From: "rob pike, esq." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 08:49:50 -0400 Rio never seemed enough of an advance to be worth a paper. The 8 paper describes the most important property, providing a window system as a file server. The only novel feature of rio is the way it avoids multiplexing the graphics device, letting the driver do that job. (8 muxed all graphics ops itself.) But other window managers can do that, so it's not worth a paper either. -rob --upas-scdppchwlallnbnzkeeyksyhfk--