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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:26:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years
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On Sat Apr 18 12:21:49 EDT 2009, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:10 AM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree that generally only one process will be accessing a "normal"
> > file at once. I think an editor is not a good example, as you say.
> >
>
> I'll say it again. It does not matter what we think. It matters what
> apps do. And some apps have multiple processes accessing one file.
>
> As to the wisdom of such access, there are many opinions :-)
>
> You really can not just rule things out because reasonable people
> don't do them. Unreasonable people write apps too.

do you think plan 9 could have been written with consideration
of how people used x windows at the time?  and still have the qualities
that we love about it?

- erik