From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels In-Reply-To: <200104100045.BAA06131@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:28:32 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7cbad31e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Steve Kilbane wrote: > Jim wrote: > > An OS is meant to be used. Any environment is a 'production' environment > > from a OS system admin perspective. Making a OS a chinese puzzle to solve > > isn't doing anyone a service. It's just hard-headed self-congragulatory > > mental mastrubation. > > I don't understand the problem, here. Jim, you *know* what Plan 9's > history is. Yes, it was supposed to be used, but to find out how well > the ideas behind it work. More specifically, use != install, so if the > effort goes into the day-to-day use at the expense of a bumpy install, > well, that's the trade-off for a research group. Silly goose. !install == !use. It's damn hard to 'use' a system if it isn't 'installed'. Talk about specious distinctions. ____________________________________________________________________ To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x+1)-ecrable. Edgar Allan Poe The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------