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Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9
From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:58:00 +0000
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Unless "minix" refers to more than one OS,
Tanenbaum's work was, again, I believe, clean-room.
IIRC it was somewhat V6 like (down to FS layout).

	Dave.

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 14:33, boyd, rounin wrote:
> matt@proweb.co.uk wrote:
> > whereas V8 begat Minix begat Linux
>
> dunno about that.  there where some 10 (or so) V8
> licences given out, so there are small n people
> who would have seen it [code].
>
> AFAIK Linus went on record that he had never seen
> code to unix -- it shows.  i remember seeing the
> ptrace implementation in '94 and it was a shocka.
>