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From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] THX hell
Date: Tue,  1 May 2007 19:29:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0705011729t6d636b2dk36eaba112d691714@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10705011724k7116ce54p2f4e94e4cf7239f6@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/1/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it's interesting to run this stuff by hand, and just see what a tangle
> web we have weave'd over 15 years. It's been a while since I watched x
> apps this closely. Xterm opens about 50 libs, while failing to open
> about 300.
>

This would actually make a pretty great paper - detailing just how
much crap has built up and become interdependent over time.

              -eric


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-02  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 18:42 ron minnich
2007-05-01 18:46 ` Richard Miller
2007-05-01 18:52   ` ron minnich
2007-05-01 20:59 ` geoff
2007-05-01 21:40 ` Bakul Shah
2007-05-01 21:45   ` ron minnich
2007-05-01 22:14   ` Steve Simon
2007-05-02  0:24     ` ron minnich
2007-05-02  0:29       ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2007-05-02  9:14 ` csant
2007-05-02 17:00   ` ron minnich
2007-05-02 17:28     ` Anthony Sorace
2007-05-02 17:45       ` W B Hacker
2007-05-03  7:23         ` csant
2007-05-02 22:26     ` csant

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