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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] What makes Plan 9 unique?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:48:50 +0000
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rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes:

> But since the interface is entirely separate, it would be easy to
> write interactive support for the terminal (a la screens), without
> shells and other programs needing to know.

"It would be easy to..." is always a weak argument.  Blind people are
here today, using GNU/Linux systems with alacrity.  Why is a suitable
Plan 9 interface not available, if it's so easy?  I suspect it would
actually take a bit of work.

Thomas