I will probably get flamed for writing this, but I will go ahead anyway. It's not accidental that early public versions of UNIX were Programmers' Workbench and Document Writers' Workbench. UNIX then and plan9 now are really optimised for those two uses. Acme(1), for example is wonderful for either set of users. Acid(1) is very appropriately named, in terms of how much it can expand a programmer's perception of reality. If you aren't writing code or documentation though then you are basically left with a cute bunny and not much else. Note that this is not a gripe, simply an observation.
> O.K., I've got Plan 9 running as a guest on XP using Qemu. Seems to run > fine and is not unusably slow. I'm at the stage of: > > "Hmm, not sure what's going on here - it's all pretty different to Linux > (which I'm quite familiar with). I'm sure there must be interesting > things to find out, but I don't really know where to start" > > I need some guidance to take me to: > > "Gosh, I quite like this way of doing things, let's find out more!" > > and hopefully to: > > "Wow, this is mind blowing - why don't all O.S.es do it this way?" > > Can anyone suggest things that I might try to give me a sense of what > Plan 9 is all about, please? > > Jim Ford -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
