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From: mike@maj... mike@maj...
Subject: oops
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 13:39:29 -0400

Unthinkingly, I wrote:

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

I should clarify this:  In Unix, most programs take standard input
and produce standard output.  The same is true in Plan 9.  So when
I said the plan 9 model is mostly the same, I was thinking of how
you run programs, not how you write them.  The incompatibilities
are a bit more dramatic from a programmer's point of view.