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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The mother-of-all-gnot?
Date: Wed,  4 Jan 2006 06:32:00 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190601031132s776d9e2w7d55878b4410de39@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f4b408b9bd790339067cf8346c61f25@9netics.com>

Skip knows how I work.  Windows laptop running drawterm,
connected to two servers in sydney and his in the next room.
Gnot hard.

brucee

On 1/4/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> Check out Gnot.
>
> If it is a Gnot-thingy and it is only connecting to Google, why would
> they muck with AJAX when they can use a file protocol?
>
> > The scary part is how little OS you wind up needing; really just
> > enough of a base to support local document caching (which will be
> > sold as "files on your machine" but are really a cache), and to run
> > AJAX.  I'm betting you can embed Opera or Firefox on a relatively
> > small machine with these kinds of constraints, without even needing
> > to re-use GNU/Linux.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 3-Jan-06, at 11:07 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> >
> >>> Don't think of it as a PC, but rather as a terminal to the Google
> >>> server.
> >>
> >> i've seen this before;  maybe gnot.
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-03 18:03 Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-03 17:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-03 17:25   ` jmk
2006-01-03 17:31     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-03 17:46     ` Dan Cross
2006-01-03 17:55       ` jmk
2006-01-03 17:58       ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-03 18:06         ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-03 19:07         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-03 18:16           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-03 18:30           ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-03 18:37             ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-04  3:54               ` Brian L. Stuart
2006-01-04  5:21                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-04  5:44                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-04 10:59                 ` C H Forsyth
2006-01-04 11:02                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-05  3:21                   ` Brian L. Stuart
2006-01-05 12:24                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-06  5:28                       ` Jeff Sickel
2006-01-06 15:52                         ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-03 20:07             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-03 19:32               ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2006-01-03 20:42                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-03 19:55               ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-03 20:08                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-03 20:10                 ` jmk
2006-01-03 20:33                   ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-01-09  7:21                   ` Gorka guardiola
2006-01-09  8:25                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-09 14:30                       ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-09 14:32                         ` Sape Mullender
2006-01-03 20:04     ` lucio
2006-01-05 16:15 jmk

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