From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:55 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <8D89413E2302391D36259F6F@computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor Topicbox-Message-UUID: 009423c0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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 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 > >