> On a semi-different note, I understand the great advancement Plan-9 > brings to the table with respect to making all operations part of > the file system. On the flip side, I do not understand the benefit > p9p brings to the table with bind and friends. It is too much of > a tack-on IMO. I deeply appreciate native sam & acme, and would > appreciate an even more native port of same. And, not to dispriage > the true benefits of Plan-9, I would love to see a POSIX implementation > of those ideas. (A topic of a future post.)
A topic of loads of past posts. Look up the glendix project. It's really hard to bolt this stuff on a posix system and I don't really see the point anymore. Use Plan 9 for the stuff you need it for and use some POSX system for online poker or whatever it is we need modern browsers for.
