Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Plan 9? Message-ID: <1988Aug18.182326.29144@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology 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> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 88 18:23:26 GMT In article <565@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >"Plan 9"... as in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? "Plan 9 from Bell Labs", actually. >Somehow I have to think they're going to change the name >before marketing it. They're not marketing it. It is strictly a research system. Unless AT&T does a bit of a turnaround, the only way you'll ever see it is when bits of it start showing up in System V Release 57. >Sounds interesting, though. Who's working on it; where can >I get more information? ... The Bell Labs research crowd (Ritchie, Pike, et al). Check recent Usenix and EUUG proceedings for relevant papers. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu