From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7359f0490607111155g2f0c2fe6qac4009c8947afd00@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:55:32 -0700 From: "Rob Pike" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Which thing was harder for u to grasp relating Plan 9? In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40607111152p228bc378i7b34b5f24baa036f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <8ccc8ba40607111152p228bc378i7b34b5f24baa036f@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c9b01c6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I would suggest: why Ken took so long to implement Datakit. On a more serious note, John Lions never quite got his head around the idea of a channel. If you come from Unix, I think it's tricky; you're carrying too much baggage. -rob On 7/11/06, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > I=B4m writing a book for the introductory course in OS at urjc, that > we teach using Plan 9. Most of it is a a lot of generic introductory > stuff about the system. > > I=B4d love to know the top-10 of "hard-to-get" concepts about the system, > specially for new comers, > to try to cover them. > > thanks a lot in any case. >