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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Summary of Plan9 for jargon file
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2003 11:34:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aa9f06de55a6d6409f4f3455a2c5eb8@centurytel.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030205121103.P30814@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

> Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms? It does everything Unix does only less reliably - Ken

Maybe the answer should be:

It does everything that UNIX does less reliably

then everyone can read into it what they want.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-05 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-05 19:05 Joel Salomon
2003-02-05 19:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-05 19:34   ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2003-02-05 19:13 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-05 19:31   ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-07  6:50   ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2003-02-07 12:20 C H Forsyth

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