[9fans] Will I ever use Brazil ?

[Frank Gleason frankg@halcyon.com]

 
>>  1) Plan 9 was distributed after it was abandoned. Universities
>>     had it before development was completely abandoned but I'll
>>     bet the writing was on the wall.
 
> that comment is misleading: brazil might best be regarded as the further
>  development
>  of plan 9 within the labs.  plan 9 was therefore not `abandoned' in
> the sense that was meant.  (it's also easy to underestimate the painful
> effort required to prepare a disribution.)

I meant abandoned as in:
  We are not developing it.
  We are not running it.
  The code may be on the file server, somewere.


frankg@halcyon.com