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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:06:29 -0600
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment
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> no, it's an experiment at this point. there are other ideas out there,
> and I should have paid more attention to op as nemo points out :-)

understand.  Don't you just HATE it when you come up with something cool and
then find a different alternative stashed in the literature ;-)  I look
forward to learning more about both.

> the main point was to see what was possible, given the well known poor
> performance of 9p on high latency links. This poor performance has an
> analog in HPC, where microseconds are large units of time.

That is why I got so interested.

  EBo --