From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser]
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Date: Thu,  6 Feb 2003 10:11:32 -0700
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, matt wrote:

> I like the approach that believes CPU cycles can be bought cheaper than
> developer minutes.

that's fine if your idea of the world is developer minutes. But there's
this other thing called "the guys who pay the bill minutes", i.e.
(l)users, and they are less willing to take slower systems.

Anyway, I am not taking exception to the decisions behind Plan 9 *in it's
current state*, I am merely asking: now that we have a model for an OS
that looks like a far better model than what *nux* offers, can we speed
that OS up to be competitive without destroying it? Or is what we have
about as good as it will get?

ron