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From: "Bence Fábián" <begnoc@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't start multiple copies of acme
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:44:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOCRf5VH8ne2Wjs2w94XhACHomHFzvcb1daCDPgv7Z00HC1sgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwHSOsryT2Jnc_FBs_fNrv1bi9Oh23fk-ytQRpqG5YHEWS=9g@mail.gmail.com>

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> On a semi-different note, I understand the great advancement Plan-9
> brings to the table with respect to making all operations part of
> the file system.  On the flip side, I do not understand the benefit
> p9p brings to the table with bind and friends.  It is too much of
> a tack-on IMO.  I deeply appreciate native sam & acme, and would
> appreciate an even more native port of same.  And, not to dispriage
> the true benefits of Plan-9, I would love to see a POSIX implementation
> of those ideas.  (A topic of a future post.)

A topic of loads of past posts. Look up the glendix project. It's really
hard to
bolt this stuff on a posix system and I don't really see the point anymore.
Use Plan 9 for the stuff you need it for and use some POSX system for
online poker or whatever it is we need modern browsers for.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-15 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-13 17:18 Blake McBride
2013-12-13 17:31 ` User &
2013-12-15 15:22   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 16:00     ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 16:33       ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 16:36       ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 16:44         ` Bence Fábián [this message]
2013-12-15 17:13           ` Blake McBride
2013-12-13 17:37 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-13 17:57   ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-12-16 10:15 ` dexen deVries
2013-12-14 14:54 Uvelichitel

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