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From: Elliott Hughes Elliott.Hughes@gen...
Subject: any papers on Plan9 II?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:38:31 +0100 (CET)

> In my opinion, just the emu version and Limbo is good enough to
> create beautiful and imaginative applications.

i think a big problem for many people was having to run inside
emu, by which i mean its big window as much as the VM, which --
provided it starts fast enough -- is neither here nor there. actually,
emu starts a little too slowly to be useful for a lot of stuff, but it
would have been ok for mailers and web browsers and the like.

i don't think "Limbo concepts are too tough" for anyone, but it
was hard to see why anyone would choose Limbo/emu for
development. in some areas (graphics, say) it was decidedly
poor, and i struggle to think of any reason for "an ordinary
programmer" to favour it.

but what has this to do with papers on Brazil?

	-e

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