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From: Sam Ducksworth <sam@duc...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] status of the ide pseudo worm patches
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:36:23 -0700 (PDT)

thanks jim. is there any info on the other file server project
or is it too soon to talk about it?

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 jmk@pla... wrote:

> On Sat Apr 28 11:29:37 EDT 2001, sam@duc... wrote:
> >
> > based on this and other information that i have gathered the
> > answer seems to be no. so based on that i have another question.
> >
> > will this functionality (ide pseudo worm) be included in the
> > 9p20?? (4th edition)?
> >
>
> I don't intend to make any changes to the version of the fileserver code
> you should have now, and it doesn't have any IDE support.
>
> The 9P2000 fileserver, which I am again working on now that update
> is out of the way, is planned to support any device the cpu/terminal
> kernel has. Of course, by the time I'm finished all this may be moot
> as there is another (separate) fileserver project underway which may
> subsume the Plan 9 one.
>

--sam