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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels
Date: Mon,  9 Apr 2001 20:30:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104100030.UAA03096@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010409181024.14587r-100000@einstein.ssz.com>

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010409181024.14587r-100000@einstein.ssz.com> you write:
>
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Dan Cross wrote:
>
>> Well, the point of Plan 9 is to be a research OS, not a system for
>> production.
>
>You mean ...was...

No, I mean is.  I believe that Bell Labs is still using it for
research, and that's their bread and butter.  Just because they
let other people have it doesn't mean they stop using it for
their own purposes and go into support mode.  Nor should they.

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-10  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-09 21:15 Russ Cox
2001-04-09 21:52 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 21:36   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-09 22:08     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:34       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-09 23:08         ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:50           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-10  0:45       ` [9fans] " Steve Kilbane
2001-04-10  0:28         ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:18           ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-10  8:57       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-09 21:40   ` William Josephson
2001-04-09 22:10     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:16       ` William Josephson
2001-04-09 22:42   ` Dan Cross
2001-04-09 23:10     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  0:30       ` Dan Cross [this message]
2001-04-09 22:10 ` Mike Haertel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-17  8:35 nemo
2001-04-10 11:56 forsyth
2001-04-10 11:50 forsyth
2001-04-10 11:35 Matt
2001-04-10 10:52 forsyth
     [not found] <200104092210.RAA06371@einstein.ssz.com>
2001-04-09 22:12 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-09 22:00 jmk
2001-04-09 22:30 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 21:47 presotto
2001-04-09 21:43 Russ Cox
2001-04-09 22:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:59   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
     [not found] <john@cs.york.ac.uk>
2001-04-09 14:33 ` John A. Murdie
2001-04-09 23:31   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-09 10:19 forsyth
2001-04-09  9:09 forsyth
2001-04-09  9:32 ` Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997
2001-04-09 16:14   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-08 19:36 presotto
2001-04-08 17:55 Andrey A Mirtchovski

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