Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Plan 9? Message-ID: <846@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 88 21:59:17 GMT Article-I.D.: yunexus.846 References: <10474@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <5960008@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <5796@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <313@dtscp1.UUCP> <8344@smoke.ARPA> <565@unisv.UUCP> Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group Lines: 28 In article <565@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >In article <8344@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: >>There are many good new ideas that can be incorporated into >>future operating systems. ... There is one in >>the works called "Plan 9" that embodies some good concepts.. > >"Plan 9"... as in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? Yep, I think that is the idea. :-) >Somehow I have to think they're going to change the name >before marketing it. 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. [I think EUUG got one last year.] >Mike Van Pelt oz -- Crud that is not paged | Usenet: ...!utzoo!yunexus!oz is still crud. | ...uunet!mnetor!yunexus!oz andrew@alice | Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] | Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976