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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:45:15 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
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> Well, yes and no.
>
> Kernels are also important in the sense that they set the tone for
> everything above them:
> kencc wouldn't have happened on linux, for example.

The "personality" can be completely isolated from the kernel.
It is possible to provide the complete plan9 API above windows
or linux or any other reasonable kernel.  It wouldn't be efficient,
and you may have to bend over backwards in a few places if using
some APIs (ie. see cygwin's implementation of fork and select
using only the win32 api), but it is possible.  So in this sense,
I'm not sure I agree with you.

> DaveL.

Tim N.