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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:29:41 -0200
From: "Iruata Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
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On Jan 25, 2008 4:04 PM,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > why use Plan 9 at all if every mainstream operating system is 'workable'?
> > i guess workable is not the point.
>
> I don't get it, why does Plan 9 have to behave like Linux or Windows?
> There are tractors, tracks and lamborghinis and no one expects the
> first to travel at the speed of sound, the second to pull ploughs or
> the last to carry furniture around.
>
> Yet they all use the internal combustion engine and have wheels at the
> four corners.  Even the user interface is moderately common amongst
> them.
>
> ++L
>
>

you got me wrong.

iru