From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:44:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8223.1142826286@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441AD830.1030507@lanl.gov>
> Also, I've realized nobody in Unix understands Plan 9. It took
> me a while.
It's a deceptive situation, somewhat similar to infix versus postfix
calculators. After all, both of them have + and - buttons. "But
where's =?" "There's not supposed to be an =." "Why would anybody
want to learn how to use a calculator that doesn't have =?".
> The worst thing ever done was to say that in Plan 9, 'everything
> is a file'. It's not.
I try to say "Everything is a small file *system*" but it's hard
to remember every time.
Dave Eckhardt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 8:11 Fernan Bolando
2006-03-16 13:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-03-16 16:50 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-17 1:05 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 11:33 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-17 12:03 ` Axel Belinfante
2006-03-17 15:39 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-20 3:44 ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2006-03-20 3:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-20 4:11 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-20 8:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-24 5:29 ` ems
2006-03-24 7:49 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-24 17:14 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-24 17:34 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-24 18:11 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-24 18:09 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-24 18:26 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-26 9:14 ` ems
2006-03-17 14:11 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 14:22 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-17 15:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-18 0:39 ` geoff
2006-03-18 0:59 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 1:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-18 1:18 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-19 14:43 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-20 2:18 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 3:39 ` uriel
2006-03-20 11:50 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 20:00 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-03-21 2:41 ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 19:50 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-03-20 19:59 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-21 23:43 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-17 15:12 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 15:21 Mike Haertel
2006-03-17 15:25 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 16:17 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 2:03 dmr
2006-03-18 6:12 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-18 6:24 ` Tim Wiess
2006-03-18 6:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-18 13:31 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-18 13:30 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-18 16:28 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-18 23:13 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-19 1:03 ` geoff
2006-03-18 14:03 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 14:14 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 18:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-18 19:01 erik quanstrom
2006-03-21 1:56 erik quanstrom
2006-03-21 3:43 ` dmr
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