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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:20:51 +0000
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forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk... 
>>>The big problem with all the public source 
>>>code is that it's so ridiculously big.  Hundreds
>>>of lines to deal with byte order issues.
>

Is there an IRC client and/or server yet? RFC1459 IIRC. In unix with
netcat and a decent shell a rustic IRC client is a couple screens of code.

BTW, current ircd's have a scalability limit that seems to be reflected in
EFnet being unable to grow beyond about 40,000 users. This is fixable.

Rick Hohensee
Forth, unix, H3sm, sketches of Ha3sm.