From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and resource discovery
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:12:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a16ff4dce11c9dfb0e8456d661dc84@plan9.escet.urjc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A42D1A.7090902@chunder.com>
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The Plan 9 derivative that I'm using, which we call Plan B,
has all its services `discovered'.
For example, /bin comes from
mount -V /bin/!$cputype /bin
BTW, this beast can also redirect some I/O devices (eg mouse)
for usage with remote machines.
☺
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From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and resource discovery
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:41:30 +1100
Message-ID: <41A42D1A.7090902@chunder.com>
inferno has virgil, tho it's rarely used in the wild.
i find it good for "anyone out there got a /dev/mathlink?".
brucee
Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
> Just the other day I've been having this hallway conversation where
> I tried to make Plan9 sound as a solution to all the problems
> (excluding world's hunger, perhaps) and the question that made
> me write this email and humbly ask for your ideas was this:
> "Well, it seems that Plan9 is really good about making *use*
> of resources, but how does it help you *discover* them?".
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-24 4:05 Roman Shaposhnick
2004-11-24 4:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-11-24 10:15 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-11-24 6:29 ` Taj Khattra
2004-11-24 6:30 ` boyd, rounin
2004-11-24 6:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-11-24 10:12 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros [this message]
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