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[dave at cca.org]

jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:24:14PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
>> jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:
>> 
>> >But darn the programming model looks sweet.  I wish I could find
>> >something similar for either Sun4 or Openboot PPC.
>> 
>> What are the experimental alternatives for Sparcs? Amoeba, 
>> anything else?

>Do you count Plan9?

Ah, yes. I personally haven't tried Plan 9, even though many
bits look very cool, simply because the lack of terminal support
annoys me.

Can you use x-terminals with Plan 9?

>It seems that everybody is focus on either intel or non-user oriented
>stuff.  An Amoeba isn't exactly something that most people would sit
>down out and use as as workstation.

I'm mostly interested in server type stuff. I don't really use much
"desktop environment" software. My desktop is ultra-minimal. I could
switch back to 80x24 text terminal without much discomfort. The
main reason I sit in front of an x-terminal is for postscript hacking.

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