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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Don't know much about history
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:29:07 +0200
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> in the absence of a real OS fork() with open FD 0 1 2 state, eunice beat
> the hell out of the VMS alternatives for many things. I never liked
> 'mailboxes' which was their IPC model.

story goes that sydney uni comp sci [basser] has the choice between
VMS and unix.  all those in the know wanted unix (some of 'em
ex-UNSW) and so a 60 user benchmark was run on an 11/780.

iirc, VMS swapped all over itself, smashing the 'system' pack.

unix didn't.

so basser got to run unix.