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From: mike@maj... mike@maj...
Subject: Ported U*ix programs to Plan 9?
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 13:26:40 -0400

>Er, rather than porting existing stuff (GNU, etc) shouldn't
>you be writing NEW programs with the plan9 model?

I think the only place where the "plan 9 model" is dramatically
different is in window system software.

There's a large amount of unix software that fits plan 9 just
fine, and it would be awfully stupid to reinvent wheels when
there's genuinely new things to work on instead...