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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Questions
Date: Fri,  1 Jun 2007 07:17:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddf212b66d95cf0e5fe56bc3abed80ac@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180635957.339055.285650@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>

> I know all these questions seem a bit crazy for an ancient system
> thats hasn't really caught on with the general whole computer
> world....and its only being used as an OS research platform for the
> computer science researchers....but it would be cool to have such an
> unknown system to work.

it's interesting that you call plan 9 an ancient system.  what are you
comparing it to?  unix is almost twenty years older than plan 9.
i'm not sure why age is a metric for evaluating operating systems.

plan 9 is not just a research operating system; products based on it
ship every day.

- erik


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-01 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-01  8:44 chutsu
2007-06-01  9:06 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-06-01 11:17 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-06-01 15:25   ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-01 15:33     ` Laurent Malvert
2007-06-01 15:39       ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-01 15:46         ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-01 16:06           ` Laurent Malvert
2007-06-01 16:09             ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-01 18:07               ` Laurent Malvert
2007-06-04  9:08               ` [9fans] " chutsu
2007-06-04  9:33                 ` W B Hacker
2007-06-01 17:23           ` [9fans] " Kris Maglione
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-18  1:14 [9fans] Newbie questions Terry Wendt
2013-09-18  5:42 ` Deepak Chawla
2013-09-18  8:02   ` Richard Miller
2013-09-18  8:23     ` Jens Staal
2013-09-18 12:41       ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-19 14:02         ` Matthew Veety
2007-12-07  9:58 Bob
2007-12-07 12:17 ` Steve Simon
2007-12-07 14:33   ` C H Forsyth
2007-06-01  8:44 [9fans] Newbie Questions chutsu
2007-06-01 10:40 ` cej
2001-02-08 22:21 [9fans] Newbie questions forsyth
2001-02-09  9:40 ` Michael Collins
2001-02-09 15:36   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-08 19:29 anothy
2001-02-07 21:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-08  9:42 ` Michael Collins
2001-02-07 19:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-07 18:13 ` mike
2001-02-08  9:42 ` Michael Collins
2001-02-07 18:12 nigel
2001-02-07 17:21 Russ Cox
2001-02-07 17:04 Russ Cox
2001-02-07 17:53 ` mike
2001-02-07 10:08 nigel
2001-02-07  9:46 Michael Collins
2001-02-07 17:13 ` Lucio De Re

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