[9fans] Why should I invest[tigate] plan9?

[Unknown <dog@gmail.com>]

My route here was: when my ISP said I'd have to buy W95, because Win3 
wasn't good enough any more, I said screw-you and found linux and ETHO 
[the single fd0, full OS & inet suite].

After using ETHO for some years, all other OSs felt like tying your shoe-
laces wearing boxing-gloves. 

When ETHO was ported to linux, the ability to access the *nix & FAT FSs
plus the superior *nix inet facilities and *.pdf & *.doc viewers allowed
use of ETHO's superior text editing facilities, with the ability to eg.
see *.pdf on the same screen. What can you do when documents which should 
be published in plain text are in *pdf & *.doc ?!

Because ETHO's VNC is too clunky and <running *nix jobs via ETHO, by 
cycling through clipboard-files is tedious> I found acme->plan9->wily, 
which had ETHO's superior mouse-based editor [near copy] and could run
*nix commands directly.

Since plan9 had admitted to copying ETHO, I knew it was GOOD STUFF.
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I've long realised that the naive/wrong view of computing is app-centered,
eg. the monster-browser, that does-every-thing. Whereas the correct/
extendable view is data-centered. Which implies file-directory-centered.
I used to think of *MY* file heirarchy; but plan9 is 'higher'/better in 
viewing the global data-heirarchy. [OTOH relying on clouds will bring 
more disaster than the recent global economic collapse, and what about 
google enslaving humanity: can YOU survive without google?]

The other powerfull notion [apart from data/file centered] which allows 
openess/extention is <menus>, which facilitiate the capture and access of 
knowledge of what-we've-already-learned-and-paid-for, is used in ETHO.

I suspect that Wirth got all these ideas from his time at PARC?
They aren't spelled out, but with long usage, you can read-between the 
lines. OTOH, I appreciate the writings of the originators of *nix, who've 
apparently gone on to create plan9, who explicitly spell out the 
underlying <principles of the *nix way of doing it>.

Recently I've tested the RaspberyPi hardware and was very impressed.

Is it realistic to use the Rpi as a stepping stone to plan9?
If so, how should I proceed [my main activity is collecting text from the 
inet, to read and merge/manipulate and store, for later reference]?

== TIA.