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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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> > Some of that is true, but they do more checking than
> > Oberon, and they can verify the bytecodes they ship around
> > while Oberon could make no such guarantee about its binaries.
> >
> > Russ
>
> i thought the problem was that they didn't reference other systems. i
> don't think anyone claims their work is purely derivative.

Perhaps they should have mentioned Oberon, but they did reference
five other systems written in checked languages compiled to binary,
indistinguishable from Oberon as far as this point is concerned.

Russ