Re: [9front] Enabling a service

[sl@stanleylieber.com]

> i realize it's factually true that "nobody' runs diskless terminals,
> cpu servers, etc., but it makes plan 9 power users whince to see this
> declared, over and over again, when a lot of the power of the system
> comes from this very useful modularity that everyone just wants to
> throw away.

realprogrammatik:

9p vs latency is a losing battle. trying to run a diskless terminal
over the internet really, REALLY sucks. even drawterm is not great
in this context.

like i said, not much has ever been done to address those original
assumptions, one of which is that everybody lives on the same fast,
local network. it helped that when plan 9 was under heavy development,
file sizes of just about everything anybody was working with were
relatively small, and multimedia wasn't really happening on the scale
that users today expect as part of any reasonable environment.

(exceptions duly noted)

sl