From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8D89413E2302391D36259F6F@computer> (raw)
> thanks for setting me straight. for some reason, i thought my company
> had shipped several thousand units based on plan 9. i don't know what
> would have given me that idea.
Somebody would make a bad choice anyway. Microsoft shipped "thousands" of
copies of Microsoft Bob before they learnt about their mistake. Let's see
if your company, founded 2000, survives its Coraid Bob. And I hear your
primary source of sustenance is an AoE driver for _Linux_. You're leeching
another OS's user base and boasting doing Plan 9? Where would you be
without "Linux Support for EtherDrive (R) Storage?"
(http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/)
> also, could you send me the new subtraction table we're supposed
> to be using.
>
> [Pike90] R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, H. Trickey,
> ``Plan 9 from Bell Labs'',
> .I
> UKUUG Proc. of the Summer 1990 Conf. ,
> London, England,
> 1990.
Yes. According to Wikipedia:
"It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing
Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002."
Mid-1980s ~ 1985
Current date (here) = August 20, 2008
2008 - 1985 + 1 = 24. Update your table.
Apparently, Plan 9 was being developed some years before the paper. You
know, you gotta do something with the free time on your hand. Create an OS,
for example. And pull a paper out of it after some years.
By the way, what exactly happened to Plan 9 on 2002? Was it "dismantled?"
Or did they shut the "furnace" down?
--On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:34 PM -0400 erik quanstrom
<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> It's a "research"
>> platform for those who want to "tell" other people what they should do
>> and how they should do it and why any other way would be "sacrilege."
>
> thanks for setting me straight. for some reason, i thought my company
> had shipped several thousand units based on plan 9. i don't know what
> would have given me that idea.
>
>> No wonder
>> it has remained as minuscule and insignificant--9people tell you it's
>> "nimble," don't believe them--as it is after like 24 years of
>> "development."
>
> also, could you send me the new subtraction table we're supposed
> to be using.
>
> [Pike90] R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, H. Trickey,
> ``Plan 9 from Bell Labs'',
> .I
> UKUUG Proc. of the Summer 1990 Conf. ,
> London, England,
> 1990.
>
> - erik
>
>
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2008-08-21 10:36 ` erik quanstrom
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2008-08-20 0:10 Eris Discordia
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2008-08-20 7:03 ` Eris Discordia
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2008-08-19 22:00 Eris Discordia
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2008-08-19 22:26 ` Steve Simon
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2008-08-20 3:26 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-08-20 3:31 ` Bruce Ellis
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2008-08-19 22:25 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-19 22:31 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-19 22:46 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-08-20 0:31 ` Eris Discordia
2008-08-19 23:03 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2008-08-20 0:34 ` Eris Discordia
2008-08-20 0:58 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2008-08-19 22:34 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-20 3:11 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-08-19 15:52 Wendell xe
2008-08-19 16:01 ` ron minnich
2008-08-19 16:11 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-19 21:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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2008-08-19 21:00 ` Steve Simon
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2008-08-19 20:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-19 21:24 ` Iruata Souza
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