Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Plan 9? Message-ID: <880@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 88 13:55:35 GMT Article-I.D.: buengc.880 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> <846@yunexus.UUCP> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 16 In article <846@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: >In article <565@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >> >>"Plan 9"... as in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? > >Yep, I think that is the idea. :-) > >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. Is this the one where Thompson finally gets to spell creat() "with an e"? --Blair