Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:57:06 -0500 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199507280257.VAA17784@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers Path: peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Plan9 - a salutory tale Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <DCEo73.DpD@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <9507260355.AA11554@gdwest.gd.com> <9507261814.AA08617@plokta.eng.sun.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 02:57:03 GMT In article <9507261814.AA08617@plokta.eng.sun.com>, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@eng.sun.com> wrote: >As to whether there is anything FreeBSD can learn from Plan 9, I don't >think so. I disagree. Oh, not in the user interface model, but in the file system and process model. It takes the UNIX "everything is a file" a logical evolutionary step forward. As for the UI... well, you can run "sam" and "9term" and "9wm" and get most of it. I kind of like "sam", though it needs better key bindings. 9term and 9wm are for the birds.
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