You can dump the acme session at will and reload it to restore the session;
that combined with pxeloading a term or using drawterm, you almost don't
have to worry about losing your work or where you are. You can also use P9P
acme and import/fusemount the the Plan 9 fileserver with the same effect.

My home setup is a couple of Intel atom servers; one for Auth/Fileserver
(fossil+venti) and the other is a CPU (with a backup venti).  There are a
couple of RPi3's pxeloading the term kernel.  A Microtik RB tftp/bootp
loads a cpu kernel; it is the token MIPS machine (maybe VCore2 is supported
some day).  There are a couple of dormant (and noisy) x86 rackmount servers
that pxeboot cpu's for when I need a bit more oomph. Linux and MacOS
laptops have P9P and drawterm. I tend to fusemount the filesystem when I'm
using those.


On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not sure this email ever made it to the forum,
> hence I decided to ask once more...
>
> Thanks for any comments...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
> Date: 16 June 2016 at 10:30
> Subject: ubiquitous environment?
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
>
>
> Hello, everyone,
>
> I read the following some time ago and now got back to it.
> It's from an interview with Russ Cox.
> https://usesthis.com/interviews/russ.cox/
>
> --------------
> The thing I miss most about Plan 9 was the way that no matter which
> computer you sat down at, you had the same environment. Because we
> were working off a shared file server - there were no local disks on
> the Plan 9 workstations - you could go home and log in and all your
> work was there waiting. Of course, it only worked because we had good,
> fast connectivity to the file server, and only file state - not
> application state - transferred, but it was still a huge win.
>
> Today it's taken for granted that everyone has local files on disk and
> you need programs like Unison or Dropbox (or for the power users,
> Mercurial or Git) to synchronize them, but what we had in Plan 9 was
> completely effortless, and my dream is to return to that kind of
> environment. I want to be working on my home desktop, realize what
> time it is, run out the door to catch my train, open my laptop on the
> train, continue right where I left off, close the laptop, hop off the
> train, sit down at work, and have all my state sitting there on the
> monitor on my desk, all without even thinking about it.
> --------------
>
> Has anyone tried a setup like that? -- Having a server at work and
> working on it even from home/anywhere? And how is it set up? Does it mean
> that wherever you sit you somehow mount the window system to get
> to the exactly same state that you left the machine in?
> (Ie. something like a screen/tmux but supplied by the system itself?)
>
> Thanks for any comments!
>
> Ruda
>
>