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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 01:51:16 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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> Think PDA, phone handset, 'thin client' (terminal) and the heavy-hitters for
> storage and computation located somewhere else on the network.
>
> Sure - the need is being filled with WinCE, Palm, Symbian, even stripped-down
> Linux already.
>
> But if ever there was a market born to take best advantage of Plan9's long suit,
> handheld, or 'wearable' has to be the most obvious contender, and on power nd
> bandwidth consumption as much as CPU cycles or 'local' RAM capacity.

You have to be nuts to use Plan 9 for such things when you can use Inferno.

uriel