From: Steven Plite splite@wdni.com
Subject: Plan 9 in the news?
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:27:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19951201192717.sldidqhoc-tJJjCR_ELvP6KVqCthx_9H_YZKrKtajIg@z> (raw)
>> The January 1996 issue of Unix Review has a rather stunning
>> article about Plan 9.
>Stunning in the sense that the guy couldn't get it to install and had
>to restore his drives from backups tapes. But when he played with a
>friend's system he was impressed.
> /r$
Also stunning for its inaccuracies, such as "Plan 9 will not run on a PCI bus",
"The only widely available version [of Plan 9] is for the PC" and a few others.
Actually reading some of the docs would have helped.
He also made the stunning observation to "not install Plan 9 on any machine
you use without full, complete backups." I would think "any OS" would
substitute nicely for "Plan 9" in this case.
Maybe he should have titled the article, "Help wanted, Plan9 a piece of junk!"
On the other hand, I enjoy that Plan 9 users constitute a bit of an elitist
clique. Articles like this will help to keep it that way.
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