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From: Frank Gleason frankg@halcyon.com
Subject: [9fans] Will I ever use Brazil ?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:54:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980921195421.Ptp9UKenXx3uvL8tU0T3MszqKcvfSAr0jdz6cP-Xo8w@z> (raw)

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 geoff@x.bell-labs.com wrote:

> As I've said before on this list, don't read too much into the name
> change.  People here continue to develop and run a lineal descendant
> of Plan 9 second edition; it's called Brazil.  Some things have
> changed, but I doubt that any user of second edition would be shocked,
> stunned and flabbergasted if confronted with Brazil.  Anybody who
> thinks Plan 9 withered up and died inside Bell Labs after the second
> edition release is dreaming.
> 
> Did you consider Unix abandoned after the Fifth Edition release?
> after the Sixth Edition release

So, Brazil is to Plan 9 as Sixth Edition is to Fifth Edition?

frankg@halcyon.com







             reply	other threads:[~1998-09-21 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-21 19:54 Frank [this message]
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1998-09-22 10:52 Digby
1998-09-21 19:24 geoff
1998-09-21 18:43 Frank
1998-09-21  9:31 forsyth
1998-09-21  9:07 forsyth
1998-09-21  1:48 Frank
1998-09-21  1:29 okamoto
1998-09-20 12:39 Jean

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