From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <404df7e5d05c5ae6057ea214164f0d0d@quintile.net> References: <57928816a76e769327ca134d7e28bd06@bellsouth.net> <404df7e5d05c5ae6057ea214164f0d0d@quintile.net> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:20:08 -0700 Message-ID: <4f34febc0904171320i6f983423l418e56420581db5f@mail.gmail.com> From: John Barham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: e399532a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Steve Simon wrote: > I cannot find the reference (sorry), but I read an interview with Ken > (Thompson) a while ago. > > He was asked what he would change if he where working on plan9 now, > and his reply was somthing like "I would add support for cloud computing". Perhaps you were thinking of his "Ask a Google engineer" answers at http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&t=2d, specifically the question "If you could redesign Plan 9 now (and expect similar uptake to UNIX), what would you do differently?"