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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Plan 9?
Message-ID: <880@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 19 Aug 88 13:55:35 GMT
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In article <846@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>In article <565@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>>
>>"Plan 9"... as in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"?  
>
>Yep, I think that is the idea. :-)
>
>Marketing ?? What marketing ?? Rob Pike says the ordinary mortals
>will never see it, and it is a "pure" re-write of Un*x, by Pike,
>Thompson, others. I know of no published paper about it, but Pike
>will occasionally do a lecture on it.

Is this the one where Thompson finally gets to spell creat()
"with an e"?

				--Blair