Why?

[Mike McCarty jmccarty@spdmail.spd.dsccc.com]

In article <SASDCK.95Aug31085830@borel.unx.sas.com>,
David Kelley <sasdck@unx.sas.COM> wrote:
)>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Sill <de5@sws5.ctd.ornl.GOV> writes:
)In article <DE5.95Aug29115013@sws5.CTD.ORNL.GOV> de5@sws5.ctd.ornl.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
)
)Dave> Plan 9 sounds interesting, but why would I want to install it
)Dave> other than to satisfy my intellectual curiosity?
)
)I've been thinking of installing it as well, and I agree that I don't think
)it will serve any other purpose than that for me.  It's a for-the-heck-of-it,
)OS hobbyist kind of activity.
)
)I'm using Win95 and Linux.  But I'm short on diskspace (no wonder), 
)so I think I'll add a new drive and put Plan9 on the end of it for yucks.
)I'll keep critical data on the old drive since I'm wary of Plan9's
)presumptuous partitioning scheme.

The reason for investigating Plan 9 (named for the movie "Plan 9 from
Outer Space), is NONE OF THE ABOVE. Plan 9 is a "distributed" operating
system. So it can manage multiple CPU's. That is the real reason. It can
do things which Windows, DOS, MACOS, etc. never even thought of.

Mike
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