* 8.5 on x
@ 1993-06-03 19:40 Steve_Kilbane
1993-06-04 12:19 ` John Robert LoVerso
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From: Steve_Kilbane @ 1993-06-03 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
> From: dschieb%muse.CV.NRAO.EDU@gec-epl.co.uk (Darrell Schiebel)
> Does anyone know if the source to this '8 1/2' window system
> is available somewhere via FTP, or the chances of porting
> it to something like X??
i don't know if the source is available outside of the plan 9 distribution,
but there are two parts to your answer:
(a) the fundamentals of 8.5 - the file serving - can't be ported to x under
unix, because unix doesn't provide the right file primitives (although
you might get something close using named pipes, unix sockets or a user-
level nfs server, but you still don't get the union directories)
(b) it's possible to produce a look-and-feel 8.5 window manager under unix
(there is already a public-domain version of 9term available), but i'd
rather not have one under x - the whole point of 8.5 is that it throws
away all the baggage, and just does it right first time (bit like rc,
really).
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* Re: 8.5 on x
1993-06-03 19:40 8.5 on x Steve_Kilbane
@ 1993-06-04 12:19 ` John Robert LoVerso
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From: John Robert LoVerso @ 1993-06-04 12:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steve_Kilbane; +Cc: rc
> but you still don't get the union directories)
I would expect that something like Sun's translucent file system would be able
to supply this.
John
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