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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:35:15 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]
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> or the cannonical example, a hard drive.

I intentionally avoided this one because two things that modern
OSs do know how to share (at least a little) are:
   - filesystems
   - printers

Its just all the other stuff that they haven bothered to tackle
yet, except in very specific applications (ie. remote desktop access).

> - erik

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com