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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
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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.