Plan9 Kernal design

[Berny Goodheart berny@scoucer.tandem.com.au]

Original attachment posted by Berry Kercheval:
> 
> Oops.  Excuse the blank message, please.  I'm not using plan 9 to read mail, 
> that's my problem.  Yeah, that's it!
> 
> >>>tbcc!bwc@uunet.uu.net said:
>  > Can the Lions stuff be published?
> 
> I was going to send him private mail, saying that to the best of my knowledge 
> the answer is still no, despite the fact that the information is mostly 
> obsolete, that the information in Lions or similar or better was mostly 
> available in either Bach, the Demon book or any 4FreeBSD CDrom, and that 
> publishing it would make a lot of old hackers very happy, save some file 
> folders by recycling old dog-eared Xerox(tm) copies of it, and would make AT&T 
> gain karma points.
> 
> I was going to say that, and decided not to, and let someone closer to the 
> truth answer (I can see it now: "No. Love, Dennis") but by accident sent off a 
> blank message I thought at least deserved an explanation.
> 
> So, the answer is, as far as I know:
> 
> No.
> 
> Love,
>   --berry
> 
> Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
> 
> 

Well actually the real answer is "maybe". A few people mentioning no
names are working on getting the OK to publish John's work but it
isn't easy. The hard part is finding the right person with a
position in the bureaucracy who is qualified enough to give it the go-ahead.
And by the way, neither Dennis or Ken are that right person. Despite
their position, the go-ahead needs to come from higher ground.
But keep your fingers crossed that one day the bureaucracy 
holding the flag will allow John's books to be published.
Maybe UNIX's new owners, SCO will do the right thing :-)

I am interested in how this subject came up in the 9fans group though. 
But if it's going to start a thread of discussion not relevent to
Plan 9, let's take it off line.

Berny Goodheart