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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:50:07 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Re: os news: plan 9 on bg/l
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I would like to add my congratuations to Eric, Charles, Jim & Ron.
This is a really exciting development which will be a rich research
resource and also, hopefully, a high profile showcase for Plan 9 and
inferno.
Eric's blog and the USENIX paper give a real flavour of the exercise:
I also learned a new expression  - "bring-up environment" - suggesting
much more than a bootstrap,  like coaxing the monster into life...

The scale of the hardware is boggling.
That Plan 9 can tame it and provide a coherent system model - with
practical, scalable tools - is a real testament to the foresight of
the Plan 9 developers.

Leo