Re: [9front] Enabling a service

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On May 8, 2024 3:22:25 AM EDT, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> the laptop thing in particular is
>> always funny to me, because in practice it's very similar to that old
>> situation where bell labs people had slow connections to their terminals
>> at home. it's too bad ancient terminals weren't battery powered, or
>> maybe the plan 9 gods would have already put some thought into this.
>
>I believe this must have been a party trick mostly. They were likely
>still required to show up in the office.
>
>The latency of these connections was very good, so that's how I
>explain their lack of optimizations in rio for limiting the amount of
>roundtrips.
>Or they used an older version that didn't have the very slow rio yet.
>And obviously mostly everything was text back then, so no need to fix
>the roundtrip-bottleneck for high bitrate media like images.
>
>If they had our use-case, I don't know if they would have gone for the
>kind of optimization that I have in mind, as this leads to diminishing
>returns very fast. Fully meshed, non-centralized distributed systems
>might be too juicy for them to ignore for solving this kind of
>problem.
>

yeah, i was thinking of the blit vs the first eight unix guis, jim/sam, etc.

sl