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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality
Date: Thu,  8 Jun 2006 11:43:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd112ec31f49398ae658712f73d74b02@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60606080829w5d85b5c7t5bcb3a9571d0d9dc@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu Jun  8 11:30:43 EDT 2006, leimy2k@gmail.com wrote:
> ...
> Why not just run Plan 9 as the guest for that matter.  I do that with
> parallels.  It's no worse than using VNC to alleviate the pain of not
> having a web browser is it?  Except I don't need VNC to do the work.
> 
> I think I'd be happy with this.  I don't see any compelling reasons
> these days to load Plan 9 anywhere but in a virtualized environment
> really (for my use).
> 
> Ron has a very specific need and I wish him luck.
> ...

"There is no problem in computer science that cannot be solved by
another level of indirection." - except performance. Last week I
listened to many talks which wanted to fix the problem of porting
code to supercomputers by adding virtualisation because, well, Ken,
device drivers are hard so let's just go to the mall.

Ron's needs are what are not so indirectly paying for keeping
plan9.bell-labs.com alive.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-08 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08  7:30 cej
2006-06-08  9:32 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-06-08 15:29   ` David Leimbach
2006-06-08 15:43     ` jmk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-09  6:01 cej
2006-06-08  0:53 [9fans] gcc on plan9 geoff
2006-06-08  1:07 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-08  1:39   ` [9fans] quantity vs. quality Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-06-08  3:05     ` Dan Cross
2006-06-08  3:44       ` Joel Salomon
2006-06-08  7:03         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-09 22:03       ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 22:44         ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 22:46           ` quanstro
2006-06-09 22:51           ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-09 22:55             ` quanstro
2006-06-09 23:19               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-09 23:29                 ` quanstro
2006-06-10  1:57                   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-09 23:51                     ` quanstro
2006-06-10  0:10                       ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-10  2:31                         ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-10  0:45                           ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-10  3:01                             ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-10  0:52                               ` quanstro
2006-06-10  1:04                               ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-10 23:13                             ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-11  0:44                               ` quanstro
2006-06-11  5:08                                 ` lucio
2006-06-11 10:09                                   ` quanstro
2006-06-11 12:00                                     ` lucio
2006-06-11 22:59                                       ` quanstro
2006-06-11 23:26                                       ` geoff
2006-06-12  3:45                                         ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-12 20:16                                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-12 20:23                                             ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-12 20:56                                               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-12 21:09                                                 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-06-13  0:05                                                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-12 21:15                                             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-06-13 12:08                                               ` rog
2006-06-13 16:34                                                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-06-13 21:35                                                   ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-06-14 22:09                                                 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-15 15:46                                                   ` Victor Nazarov
2006-06-11  5:42                               ` Russ Cox
2006-06-11 10:08                                 ` quanstro
2006-06-12  1:03                               ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-06-10 23:05                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-11  0:00                             ` quanstro
2006-06-10  0:24                       ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-10  0:36                         ` quanstro
2006-06-10  2:27                       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-10  0:23                         ` quanstro
2006-06-10  0:41                           ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-10  0:59                             ` quanstro
2006-06-10  1:15                               ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-10  5:19                                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-06-10  2:51                           ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-10  0:45                             ` quanstro
2006-06-10  3:10                               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-06-10  0:53                                 ` quanstro
2006-06-10 23:06                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-10 23:15                             ` geoff
2006-06-11  2:58                             ` jmk
2006-06-10 23:04                       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-11  0:05                         ` quanstro
2006-06-10 23:03                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-09 23:25             ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-09 23:38               ` David Leimbach
2006-06-09 23:45                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-06-09 23:46                 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-06-10 23:03                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-10 23:02                 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-11  0:12                   ` quanstro
2006-06-11  2:20                     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-11 22:31                   ` David Leimbach
2006-06-10  0:28           ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 21:29     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-06-09 21:34       ` andrey mirtchovski

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