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Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:03:09 -0700
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> Maybe the thing to do is seek out several of the smart
> minds in Microsoft R&D, who are bound to see the problems
> but might not have seen the solution, and engage them in
> dialogues.  If you make enough impact, perhaps it would
> begin moving the dominant OS line in the right direction,
> eventually enabling protocol-compatible OSes with different
> higher-level interfaces to compete.

It appears they've already (re)invented it.  It is called WinFS and as
is usual practice it will probably have something like 9P but
different; There is very little information about it, but it is presumably
part of Longhorn and they're saying look for it around 2005-06.