From: Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>
To: John Kodis <kodis@jagunet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] free plan9? [was Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)]
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:03:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990509170341.F151@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990508205359.A1002@kodis.jagunet.com>; from John Kodis on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 08:53:59PM -0400
Hi!
> > Moreover, [Plan 9 is] still very early in its life cycle compared to
> > Unix. It's still at about the same stage as 6th Research Edition
> > Unix was --- so it's a bit premature to call it a failure. All it
> > would really take would be for some analog of UCB-CSRG to pick it up....
>
> Or more likely, for some college student to decide that he'd like a
> free version; nothing fancy or portable, just something for his new
> Merced box. I wonder what kind of grade Tannenbaum would give it?
This already happened. It is called VSTa.
Pavel
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