Uriel wrote:
Think PDA, phone handset, 'thin client' (terminal) and the
heavy-hitters for
storage and computation located somewhere else on the network.
Sure - the need is being filled with WinCE, Palm, Symbian, even
stripped-down
Linux already.
But if ever there was a market born to take best advantage of Plan9's
long suit,
handheld, or 'wearable' has to be the most obvious contender, and on
power nd
bandwidth consumption as much as CPU cycles or 'local' RAM capacity.
You have to be nuts to use Plan 9 for such things when you can use Inferno.
uriel
Trolling, are you?
Aside from their common roots 'native' Plan9 retains an efficiency edge over
'native' Inferno & limbo.
Most Inferno installs seem to sit atop another full-size OS, and too-seldom is
that OS Plan9, or even remotely similar. Efficiency is bound to suffer.
I do NOT like 'C' - but the interpreted language has not yet been born that can
come close to matching compiled-C for speed of execution. Not to mention the
massive weight of publically available prior art - and the 'artists' with
experience to adapt and create.
And those do still matter.
Bill
