From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:31:23 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow driver development in Plan 9 In-Reply-To: <7d3530220612061355n74c7b80ne1093798e73c4e93@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: ebd8caa0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Dec 6 17:27:37 EST 2006, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote: > > if that were true, why has it taken almost 20 years to get a useful system? > > > > - erik > > > > Because RMS is in charge? funny, nether gcc nor emacs took that long. so it's not an inherent property of stallman's direction. so it must be something else ... like maybe the design, or lack there of? - erik