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
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Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group
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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

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