From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <0ebb1b967a793f5cf328ea8dd1de308d@SDF.ORG> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:15:50 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113635d8e06cde0532b912c1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno in a browser window Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f0ea63e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a113635d8e06cde0532b912c1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 13 May 2016 at 01:03, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > There is (was) a browser plugin The original one ran in Internet Explorer. I think the bits are still included in emu/Nt, but I'd be surprised it if still worked. It was a response to the contemporary "browser as operating system" discussion. We concluded that if the browser were to provide an operating system, it might as well be a reasonable one instead of the cruft on offer at the time, and still. Chris Locke quickly did the work. A similar project for Netscape ran into various problems with the Netscape interface of the time, and was abandoned, since the whole thing was initially just a bit of fun. --001a113635d8e06cde0532b912c1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 13 May 2016 at 01:03, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail= .com> wrote:
There is (was)= a browser plugin

The original one ran in Internet Ex= plorer. I think the bits are still included in emu/Nt, but
I'd be surprised it if still worked. It was a response= to the contemporary "browser as operating system" discussion.
We concluded that if the browser were to prov= ide an operating system, it might as well be a reasonable one
instead of the cruft on offer at the time, and still. Ch= ris Locke quickly did the work.
A similar p= roject for Netscape ran into various problems with the Netscape interface o= f the time,
and was abandoned, since the wh= ole thing was initially just a bit of fun.
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