From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) From: Chad Brown In-Reply-To: <3e1162e61003220909y1fe6b29cpe95d296426e67ce3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:22:55 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <076DC872-65AA-467C-95AB-93AAA222FAEA@mit.edu> References: <13426df11003202248l4c8f9577ueab252b93b785810@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11003211447x61159036td8f217e9cc7052d2@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e61003220850q465b0a84l45efe5765ec7579f@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b181003220857t26010a08j626b6d571bdbc76@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e61003220909y1fe6b29cpe95d296426e67ce3@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef230ef6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:09 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > It's fun to look back and see what people thought was going to be the = programming model we're being faced with though. =20 When linux was first released, I remember people being surprised that = GNU (which was still claiming to be working on at least two kernels) had = *competition*. I also remember when the core linux hackers thought that = 386BSD was going to `win' (in the end-days of ``all the world's a VAX'', = that must have seemed comforting), and that they really only needed to = survive long enough for that to happen. Computing history is a funny = place. *Chad=