Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Plan 9? Message-ID: <8351@smoke.ARPA> Date: 17 Aug 88 20:29:29 GMT 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: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 20 In article <565@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >Who's working on it; It's a research project at Bell Labs. I don't want to name the participants, to spare them being deluged with inquiries. >where can I get more information? I believe there was a report given at a recent EUUG meeting; perhaps there's something in the proceedings. (Wish I had a copy.) I'm sure there will be more published as the project proceeds. >(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.) No, it's a post-UNIX distributed system that supports networked workstations in a different way than you're accustomed to seeing. Not all bit-map mouse-using systems are designed for dumb users.