Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-11-28 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 26 Nov 2009, at 9:18 pm, W B Hacker wrote: Tim Newsham wrote: or the cannonical example, a hard drive. I intentionally avoided this one because two things that modern OSs do know how to share (at least a little) are: - filesystems - printers Its just all the other stuff that they haven

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-11-28 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 26 Nov 2009, at 8:53 pm, ron minnich wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: it is pretty hard to run windows, osx or linux without a hard drive. linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more ... not sure of the others. It's certainly po

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-11-28 Thread hiro
It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. Does this say anything about it's elegance or simplicity? I don't remember what my toaster has to do with 9p, but nevermind. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2009, at 8:53 pm, ron minnich wrote: > >> On Thu,

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-11-28 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 28 Nov 2009, at 2:28 pm, hiro wrote: It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. Does this say anything about it's elegance or simplicity? I don't remember what my toaster has to do with 9p, but nevermind. And somebody always mentions toasters! Or coffee machines... :D Actually, yes i

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2009-11-28 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2009, at 2:28 pm, hiro wrote: > >> It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. Does this say anything >> about it's elegance or simplicity? I don't remember what my toaster >> has to do with 9p, but nevermind. > > And s

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Re: [9fans] poor man's abaco

2009-11-28 Thread Bill Hacker
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