From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:06:15 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 19f1c806-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/7/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > thanks for the well considered post. > > i would add (somewhat less articulately) > > (e) 9p appliances.... > That's certainly fair. I was thinking as well that there probably should be some extra category for "embedded" to cover scenarios like the iPaq or Ron's open-phones. The truth is that its really almost its own sub-domain with aspects relating to terminals, distributed systems, and server appliances (for example, sensor networks and motes and what not would probably fit into the server appliance class, but a proper phone would be more like a terminal). -eric