Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!ncar!ames!vsi1!unisv!vanpelt From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Plan 9? Message-ID: <565@unisv.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 16:20:15 GMT References: <10474@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <5960008@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <5796@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <313@dtscp1.UUCP> <8344@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA Lines: 19 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"? Somehow I have to think they're going to change the name before marketing it. Sounds interesting, though. Who's working on it; where can I get more information? (Unless it's another one of these relentlessly interactive, icon-based, rodent-infested, dumb-user-friendly, smart-user-crippling systems that are so trendy these days, in which case I'm not interested.) -- Mike Van Pelt Help stamp out Mickey-Mouse Unisys Silicon Valley computer interfaces -- vanpelt@unisv.UUCP Menus are for Restaurants!