From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20131213173148.GA85777@shells> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:44:13 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?QmVuY2UgRsOhYmnDoW4=?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0117689fc5994c04ed95670a Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't start multiple copies of acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b847a66-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e0117689fc5994c04ed95670a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > 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. --089e0117689fc5994c04ed95670a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> On a semi-different no= te, I understand the great advancement Plan-9
> brings to the table w= ith respect to making all operations part of
> the file system.=C2=A0= On the flip side, I do not understand the benefit
> p9p brings to the table with bind and friends.=C2=A0 It is too much of=
> a tack-on IMO.=C2=A0 I deeply appreciate native sam & acme, an= d would
> appreciate an even more native port of same.=C2=A0 And, not= to dispriage
> the true benefits of Plan-9, I would love to see a POSIX implementatio= n
> of those ideas.=C2=A0 (A topic of a future post.)

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

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