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From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: russcox@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Native vs Emulated
Date: Mon,  7 Mar 2005 10:40:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8440ba3bea8384131e7928d9df53323c@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05030618582a5d051c@mail.gmail.com>

> for me, the novelty of this wore off real fast.
> a simulation of three computers running three
> different operating systems is no easier to
> use than three actual computers running three
> different operating systems (though it is admittedly
> easier to carry around).  i found that the os-os
> boundaries were really frustrating to keep hopping
> across, with distinct file systems, desktops, snarf
> buffers, etc. attached to each one instead of a
> unified whole.
>
> russ

This was my experience as well.  I decided that multiple machines
glued together with Plan 9 was the easiest for me to deal with.
Multiple machines also removes the requirement for any one to do
everything.

  Brantley



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-07 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04 16:10 John Stalker
2005-03-04 16:52 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-05 11:25   ` John Stalker
2005-03-07  2:25     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-07  2:58       ` Russ Cox
2005-03-07 10:10         ` Gorka Guardiola
2005-03-07 15:40         ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2005-03-07 15:59         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-07 17:10           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-03-08  4:20         ` Martin C.Atkins
2005-03-08 14:18           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-08 23:13             ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-08 23:16               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-08 23:19                 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-08 23:37                   ` George Michaelson
2005-03-08 23:19                 ` George Michaelson
2005-03-08 23:27                   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-08 23:29                   ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-09  0:06                     ` Andrew Simmons
2005-03-09  5:33                       ` Martin C.Atkins
2005-03-09 12:07                         ` Gorka Guardiola
2005-03-09 15:43                           ` Martin C.Atkins
2005-03-09 16:20                             ` George Michaelson
2005-03-09 17:00                               ` Steve Simon
2005-03-09 17:01                               ` Steve Simon
2005-03-09 17:36                               ` [9fans] Native vs Emulated (OT) Leo Caves
2005-03-09  0:23 [9fans] Native vs Emulated Skip Tavakkolian

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