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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:07:16 -0500
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
>
> Do you have any bits and pieces of the software ecosystem not
> readily available on Plan9 (dreadful things like a C++ compiler)
> covered by these funds or is your intention to use available
> Plan9 userland as-is?
>

There is effort ongoing to support certain legacy applications -- but
at the moment its not something any of you would find useful -- and at
best it'll be more akin to linuxemu than a port of a C++ compiler.

        -eric