From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <48bf952044866666bbe3c7aecbc049cc@proxima.alt.za> References: <48bf952044866666bbe3c7aecbc049cc@proxima.alt.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Gary Wright Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:16:07 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37775b2e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:37 PM, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > When wintelinux comes crashing down through an inability to sustain > growth, Plan 9 will be a good candidate for the next hardware > platform. There will be others, all of them, hopefully, skinnier than > their predecessors. I just saw the following in another mailing list. It seems to echo your sentiments: Jay Levitt wrote: > Eclipse (and Java in general) is a great example of what I call > "stratification" - the re-implementation of lower layers in ever- > higher > layers, because nobody even remembers the lower layer is there > anymore. > > If you build a mail system that relies on a database, someone will > inevitably decide that a mail system, with its built-in queueing, > routing > and simplicity, is a great transport for asynchronous replication, > which in > turn, can be used to create a distributed file system. And once > you've got > a file system, well, wouldn't it be great to get a database running > on it? Gary Wright