From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <87a16ff4dce11c9dfb0e8456d661dc84@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and resource discovery From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:12:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <41A42D1A.7090902@chunder.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-bvidennfrndmknnaypbfjhxmbw" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0b9ec06e-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-bvidennfrndmknnaypbfjhxmbw Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =E2=98=BA --upas-bvidennfrndmknnaypbfjhxmbw Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by aquamar; Wed Nov 24 07:34:17 MET 2004 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 0E69463F5D for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:34:11 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id CD60C63F3B for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:34:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05753-03-58 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:34:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from simon.atlantic.net (simon.atlantic.net [209.208.121.22]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id B760763F3A for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:34:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 29149 invoked by uid 0); 24 Nov 2004 06:10:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.81?) (brucee@chunder.com@61.9.198.183) by simon.atlantic.net with SMTP; 24 Nov 2004 06:10:08 -0000 Message-ID: <41A42D1A.7090902@chunder.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:41:30 +1100 From: Bruce Ellis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and resource discovery References: <20041124040536.GA17538@submarine> In-Reply-To: <20041124040536.GA17538@submarine> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+nemo=lsub.org@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+nemo=lsub.org@cse.psu.edu 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?". --upas-bvidennfrndmknnaypbfjhxmbw--