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From: Dean Jansa Jr jansad@hic...
Subject: porting linux programs and drivers to plan9
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:37:19 GMT

In article <33569A1A.60B3F331@cps...> cannings@cps... (Rich Cannings) writes:

   I see many people share your views on unix software. Without digressing
   into a unix vs. plan9 spam match, if sam is to plan9 as ed is to unix
   then what would be  the emacs of plan9? (I'm sorry Mr. Pike but I can't
   believe anyone could write code in sam as fast as in emacs.)

sam is to ed 
as
acme is to emacs

Actually I think acme (and wily its Unix clone) is faster than emacs.

-Dean