[OFFTOPIC] free plan9? [was Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)]

[OFFTOPIC] free plan9? [was Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)]

[Pavel Machek]

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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Re: [OFFTOPIC] free plan9? [was Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)]

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Roger Espel Llima wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > This already happened. It is called VSTa.
> 
> *sigh* how can they expect to get anywhere with a name that ugly!

:)

The design is beautiful, however. People should go check it
out at http://www.zendo.com/vsta/...

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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