From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question In-Reply-To: <3D1B2C5B.E87FB311@null.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:12:42 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bc4f0256-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I recall not long ago when Plan 9 proponents were poking fun at > Windows and even commercial Unix for becoming bloated. Uhm, are you saying plan9 is bloated? (not that there aren't trimmable parts, but comparing 9bloat to Winbloat is just silly) > There are those of us who work with much smaller systems who > would like to at least be able to consider Plan 9 for them, but > alas cannot because of size and/or over-dependence on graphics. That'll be the day, when a full development system runs on an 8-bit part. Besides, systems of that nature typically require a special purpose OS anyway (if one at all) to achieve any decent performance in functionality. Why port plan9 when you can write your own? Call me crazy, but it sounds like what you need isn't plan9, it's inferno. For the record, it doesn't have cp -R either. Sam