From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7359f049040607085354f3851c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:53:56 -0700 From: Rob Pike To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9818ba0a-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 acme and the acme paper were written many years ago, when oberon was vastly less capable than it is now. oberon was and is an interesting system; you know what they say about imitation. however, even today, i don't think oberon has an analog to the key new idea in acme: acquisition with button 3. -rob