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Why do you believe it is impossible to display a web page of text on screen without a 3D graphics accelerator adapter card? Haven't you ever used a computer without a Nvidia in it …

Johannes Gutenberg produced the primary, and, by far, the most serious, application for type setting 575 years ago, long before the era of the Linux desktop. It's called The Book. …

there's no credible way you can claim that the Bell monopoly was healthy for the economy. The Bell monopoly invented the transistor. I think there's a credible claim that could be …

Why do you find that so repugnant that it moves you to write resentful comments about it? The entire point of researching and publishing computer operating systems is to discover a…

If the world needed OpenBSD programmers to write high-impact replacement software so badly, the world would offer to pay for it. And since evidently no one wants to pay them to do …

You were blunt enough the first time. I don't care what you do on your computer. I can continue happily writing programs after you've forgotten about Plan 9. If people stop nagging…

I guess I didn't explain my popularity contest arguments from earlier very well because since this is where all Plan 9 discussions end up, I took it for granted, but this winning f…

I'm not objecting to bloat or Clippies or any of that other stuff. I'm objecting to this frame of mind that people have which laments the lack of web browsers, has no interest or i…

This discussion is becoming a little uncivil, but I'll try to stay on-track. "Nobody will [care] about your [...] operating system if it consistently fails to be useful for day-to-…

It's completely unreasonable. Why would someone want to waste a bunch of their time and money writing word processors and web browsers to win a pointless popularity contest? What w…

"I'd much rather have seen it built around scheme, [...]" It's not meant to be built around any language. If there's a language you want to use, just start using it. All you need i…

No one is stopping you from porting whatever you please. All you have to do is sit down and do it. If I had to guess, I'd say that the main barrier you face is that you de-installe…

About eleven people who once worked on Plan 9 and Inferno are now at Google: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/alumni.html

Every second hand shop I've ever been to has a whole shelf of typewriters for less than $5.

Some junk mailers scrape the web for addresses: King George II Kermit Project 612 W 115th St New York, NY 10025-7721 http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/george.html

The graph at http://www.unix-diagram.org/ has it as well as many others not listed in the article.

I think I can one-up you. (while :; do cat ; sleep 2 ; done)

It's not unusual for an operating system to require its programs to use its system calls. A Unix program that doesn't speak Unix protocols is just as useless as a Plan 9 program th…

Oberon does exactly this. X and Plan 9 do so as well, but without the markers.

If you want to know what the script does, reading the script would be the obvious solution. Why should this program's author hold your hand and explain the script in prose when the…

> The idea of never free()ing and then taking advantage of that with a dumb allocator to get better performance is pretty clever. Ken Thompson's C compiler does this. http://plan9.…

The Hurd authors might find your part-time projects just as sad and pathetic as you find theirs. There's not much I can say beyond that, since you've based your judgement on vague …

Reading the Plan 9 kernel code hasn't convinced me that its authors focused on correctness. The kernel code is pretty, and its twenty-year-old architecture could pass as only ten y…

"The benefits outweigh the risk for 99.9% of players" Does the data support that or did you make that up? This would be a more interesting discussion if it has some scientific subs…