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To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VBE 1.2/2.0+ functions for Plan9
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:08:40 +0200
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Why bother. My bet would be on SciTech's SNAP; they recently released it
under some GPL. I've been playing with it and it seems nice enough
to warrant some poking around. Alas, I don't have the time right now.