Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!umigw!umbio!jherr From: jherr@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Jack Herrington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Plan 9? Message-ID: <282@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 88 14:33:41 GMT References: <846@yunexus.UUCP> Lines: 30 in article <846@yunexus.UUCP>, oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) says: > >In article <565@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >> >>"Plan 9"... as in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? > > 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.] > So how many re-writes of UNIX do we have running right now, let me see how many I know of. - Berkeley is developing BSD 4.4 - AT&T is developing SVr4. - GNU is making GNU. - Sun and AT&T are "merging" UNIX for AT&T SVr5? - Plan 9. - Xenix. - Posix. - Mach (not UNIX, but damn close). There have to be others, maybe I can keep sort of a running list and post it to both here and 'rec.humor'!. -Jack Herrington jherr@umbio (or jherr%umbio@umigw.miami.edu) "Now I have a Machine Gun, Ho, Ho, Ho!"