[9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[matt]

It will soon be 9 years since plan9 was announced to the world 

http://www.lucent.com/press/0795/950718.bla.html


I found a picture of the team here :
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ltcontributions.html

I made a mock up of a new one here :

http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/plan9/curse_of_glenda.html


Seems it's about time to have a new picture taken

:)

Sorry, we were trying for an April fools but this is the best I could manage at 2 mins notice.

m

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[boyd, rounin]

> It will soon be 9 years since plan9 was announced to the world 

it was up and running in the last '80s iirc.  brucee securenet keyed
into it from sydney :)

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[Rob Pike]

>> It will soon be 9 years since plan9 was announced to the world

the plan 9 'coming out' papers appeared at UKUUG in 1990.

-rob

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[C H Forsyth]

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frightening, isn't it.

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From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:12:38 -0800
Message-ID: <656AD03B-83F7-11D8-8EB1-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com>

>> It will soon be 9 years since plan9 was announced to the world

the plan 9 'coming out' papers appeared at UKUUG in 1990.

-rob

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[Brantley Coile]

Eric Levenez's Unix chart starts the Plan 9 line in 1986.  I have it
highlighted on the wall.  It runs along without arrows branching into
it for the bulk of the chart, while the rest of the Unix world is a
chaos of incest between all the versions of Unix.  It is truly
telling.

http://www.levenez.com/unix

 Brantley

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[George Michaelson]

counting tech development generations akin to human ones, I suspect the
incest is more like a small tribe rooting amongst itself a little more
than you'd want, but not actually what claude levi-strauss would class as
full on whack-jobs.

mandatory mating with VMS and CTSS would of course be much more in the
levi-strauss model of tribal anti-incest control..

-George

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[Fco.J.Ballesteros]

> frightening, isn't it.

It isn't. At least if you consider that most people
are using technology made for the environments in the (early) 70s.

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[Dave Lukes]

> the plan 9 'coming out' papers appeared at UKUUG in 1990.

Damn.
After a nostalgic smile, I suddenly realised
that my (ex-)wife has probably burned my original
copy of the proceedings.

:-(,
	Dave.

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[boyd, rounin]

> http://www.lucent.com/press/0795/950718.bla.html

where's ken?

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[boyd, rounin]

> I found a picture of the team here :
> http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ltcontributions.html

oops, where's ken?

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[rog]

> Sorry, we were trying for an April fools but this is the best I could
> manage at 2 mins notice.

yeah, it's a bummer when April 1st arrives at 2 minutes notice.

again. :-)

Re: [9fans] soon be 9 years since plan9 was available

[Derek Fawcus]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:33:09PM +0100, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> yeah, it's a bummer when April 1st arrives at 2 minutes notice.

Though I did like the story the Beeb news site trotted out today...

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