From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronald G Minnich To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 07:18:50 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 11ac5574-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Randolph Fritz wrote: > ...lurklurklurk... > > In article <20011025124551.4A1E1199B5@mail.cse.psu.edu>, rob pike wrote: > > The original reason behind Plan 9 is still the most important and, > > unfortunately, is largely obscured by the need to make a distribution > > and the desire for individuals to run it on PCs: a shared environment. > > Plan9 is, in other words, a platform for ubiquitous, collaborative > computing. This, I think, reflects the social environment of Bell > Labs. Whether or not this is a model worth pursuing in other > contexts is left as an exercise for the student... yes but ... just because that is what it was designed for does not mean that is what it is limited to. I kind of doubt the designers anticipated our little rack of DL360s running plan9. But it is pretty nice for clusters. ron