On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Charles Forsyth <fors...@terzarima.net> wrote: > it's curious that people are still worrying about "local" file systems > when so much of most people's data increasingly is miles > away on Google, S3, S3 via Drop Box, etc, which model is closer if anything > to the > original plan 9 model of dedicated file servers than the > unix/linux model of "the whole world is in the box in front of you". > >
Yes. If you look at the Chrome laptop model, to me it just looks like a Plan 9 terminal. The way I move files to/from Dropbox and these other services is via streams, btw :-) ron