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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Fri,  1 Jun 2007 07:17:49 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Questions
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> 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