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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:08:15 -0800
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> For already existing applications, there is the C to Limbo translator,

This is news to me; where could one find more information?

> It seems to me that with Inferno, it was said "we took all the lessons
> we learned from Plan 9 and built a better system",

I wouldn't have included the words `all' and `better'.  The Inferno
that was handed to the BU was clearly inspired by Plan 9, but had a
lot missing, which was obvious to Plan 9 people, but most of the
people in the BU, especially management, were not Plan 9 people, and
thought they had a complete, ready-to-sell system.  As you can see
from all the work that Vitanuova have done since, that was not true.