From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8729920c861416829cc369d0a3247e5d@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 From: Fco.J.Ballesteros In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-ayszpfzyflwurxlbthoiaiocay" Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:01:19 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70fffc36-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-ayszpfzyflwurxlbthoiaiocay Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think the system will stay alive as long as some of us use it. Regarding drivers and the like, it's likely that we get them done as some of us need them. I'll try to help by proposing student projects along the lines suggested by presotto. But wouldn't count on that too much, and right now I dont have the time to pick up those tasks myself, sic. --upas-ayszpfzyflwurxlbthoiaiocay Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by aquamar; Fri Oct 17 18:45:46 MDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 5F83319B6B; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:45:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 50FBC19B75; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:45:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 9C88619B60; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:44:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [192.16.0.25]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9773C19A73 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:44:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id h9HGhwJR025179 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:43:58 -0600 Received: from ccs-mail.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id h9HGhwF2016277 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:43:58 -0600 Received: from pink.lanl.gov (pink.lanl.gov [128.165.250.188]) by ccs-mail.lanl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id h9HGhvrp029266 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:43:57 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.35 Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:43:57 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote: > You see, without the reason to run Plan 9 it'll just become yet > another dead operating system, just like Oberon recently discussed -- > the ideas from it live here to an extent, but the system itself has > long gone... > > Opinions? I'm with you. Plan 9 apps on Unix will suffer from all the things that are wrong with Unix. It's kind of like Eunice, for all you fogies out there. ron --upas-ayszpfzyflwurxlbthoiaiocay--