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From: Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx vs drawterm
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:17:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad37948d319af199f27ec1c1f8658d70@akira.nop.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56da2399546edb81be5482c2f5bc6e08@hera.eonet.ne.jp>

>> The advantage of 9vx over drawterm, for me, is that 9vx
>> doesn't require a cpu server.
>
> You are not using Plan 9 anymore then, rather you are using something
> similar to Plan 9.
>
> I felt that Plan 9 is abused by 9vx, which I felt at first glance, but
> at that time I didn't want to say this...
>
> I prefer drawterm because it stands in the Plan 9 world.

While I haven't yet gotten the chance to play with it, personally I
felt 9vx is really a normal P9 terminal, whereas drawterm is not.
Because it doesn't run natively makes no difference.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <071820081822.3544.4880DF75000734D900000DD822218675169B0A02D2089B>
2008-07-18 19:00 ` [9fans] 9vx and local file systems erik quanstrom
2008-07-18 19:50   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-18 20:20     ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-18 20:28       ` ron minnich
2008-07-19  1:31         ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-19  2:10           ` ron minnich
2008-07-19  2:37           ` Russ Cox
2008-07-21 13:26             ` [9fans] (no subject) kokamoto
2008-07-21 14:45               ` a
2008-07-21 15:17               ` Tim Wiess [this message]
2008-07-21 18:32                 ` [9fans] Sam Benjamin Huntsman
2008-07-18 20:31       ` [9fans] 9vx and local file systems Russ Cox
2008-07-18 21:55       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-07-18 20:35   ` Russ Cox

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