From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Trickey, Howard W (Howard)" To: "'9fans@cse.psu.edu'" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:13:27 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1794144c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > ape was a 'failure of vision'. > The 'vision' for ape was unrelated to plan 9. Andrew Hume and I wanted a way to use the same source for our 1127-developed programs on the diverse set of machines we had in the late 80's - Research Unix (v10), Suns, SGI's, and Plan 9. Before the days of very good ANSI/POSIX compliance. Yes, we could remove ape from plan 9 now, if someone cares to port the remaining ape-using programs to pure plan 9 - I'd be happy to see that.