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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:30:19 -0800
From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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On 12/13/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> Perhaps they should have mentioned Oberon, but they did reference
> five other systems written in checked languages compiled to binary,
> indistinguishable from Oberon as far as this point is concerned.

True, and they do mention Cedar, which was Wirth's inspiration for
Oberon, so I suspect they made every attempt to cover their bases.

They probably took more inspiration through reflection (no pun
intended) than direct inspection, anyway.

-Jack