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From: Chris McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:55:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83AAA8A9-FF1A-4117-94B9-887AAD466DDC@yahoo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK0pxsFS6MEeQi6QEANkX6FmQXaY76U+5Buybsr2K+yKUrkepQ@mail.gmail.com>

If plan 9 had taken off I wonder if there would be peripherals with built-in 9P support.

For example, a network adapter that you can mount into /net/etherxyz over USB, PCI using a 9P connection. No driver needed, except to communicate with the bus.

Also, external storage (hdd, ssd) with a built in filesystem exposed as 9P. UTF-8 file names, of course.

Maybe 9P could be implemented in a SoC.

Chris



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-19 12:44 Marshall Conover
2016-09-19 17:25 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-19 20:55 ` Chris McGee [this message]
2016-09-20  6:16   ` David Pick
2016-09-20 17:42     ` Chris McGee
2016-09-22 22:49       ` michaelian ennis
2016-09-22 22:53         ` Chris McGee
2016-09-20  7:47   ` hiro
2016-09-20  8:09 ` hiro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-01 20:17 Marshall Conover
2016-10-01 20:21 ` Jules Merit
2016-09-20 16:48 Marshall Conover
2016-09-20 19:46 ` hiro
2016-09-19 22:00 Marshall Conover
2016-09-21  3:11 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-17 15:19 Marshall Conover
2016-09-17 16:23 ` Chris McGee
2016-09-17 17:04 ` hiro
2016-09-17 18:51   ` Jules Merit
2016-09-19 17:11     ` michaelian ennis
2016-10-01 15:03 ` James A. Robinson
2016-10-01 15:05   ` James A. Robinson

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