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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:34:00 -0700
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At 01:36 PM 7/19/2001 -0700, Mike Haertel wrote:
>an acquaintance of mine from the university now works for a company
>that is using Plan 9 to do high performance media servers (some video
>on demand kind of thing, i think).  they were using the 1995 edition,
>which they commercially licensed from bell labs.
>
>they needed a real time OS; they looked at Linux at the time (a few
>years ago, not sure exactly when) and decided that fixing all the
>problems to suit their needs would be too hard given how much of a
>bloated pig Linux had become, and so they decided to start with Plan 9
>and fix it up with the real-time features they needed.
>
>i don't know the name of the company or whether they're still in
>business.  it is/was located somewhere in in the Portland, OR area.  i
>heard all this when i ran into the fellow in a restuarant back in
>January or so, so it seems likely they're still around.
>
>