Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy

[suspect@suspicious.org]

I am saddened by the fact that Inferno did not become
the primary research focus after its initial commercial
demise via the inferno BU.

My reason for saying this is, there is more incentive to
develop applications for Inferno than there is for Plan 9,
since those applications could be used on a multitude
of platforms.

It seems to me that with Inferno, it was said "we took all
the lessons we learned from Plan 9 and built a better system",
and then, it was all just discarded (by the primary researchers,
(politely disregarding for the moment, VN)).

Given how little manpower is left at the labs, unrealistic
as it might seem to some, I'd be glad to see the two systems
merged, for the sake of both surviving. The silly thing is, this
is already happening to a certain extent with Inferno 4e picking
up 9P2000, and slivers of  factotum, venti etc., as well as
drivers. Why duplicate the effort ? Why not take the best
of both worlds ?

cheers,



On Dec 17, 2003, at 9:29 AM, David Presotto wrote:

> While I'm happy about links, it doesn't really solve many of my
> problems.