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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:24:44 -0700

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 02:09 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gma...> wrote:
> 
> > That'd be a question for the HPC people; ron, do you miss complex types in 9c?
> 
> No, but you're not going to like the reason. AFAIK nobody misses it,
> because there may not be a single HPC app in widespread use that could
> be run on Plan 9 today. We've been looking. Roman knows more than I do
> on this issue.

  True. Although HPC seems to be changing these days. Ron, I'm just
curious -- what's your definition of an HPC application, or even
HPC market? 

Thanks,
Roman.