> 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.