From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:25:49 -0500 From: "Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie Questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1180635957.339055.285650@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 76e8332e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello! Very respectfully, I'd suggest you to read all the documentation available in the wiki. Your questions are fine, but they are already answered in the plan 9 wiki (With much more depth). Plan 9 actually runs on one of the most powerful computers in the world. Ancient? Never. Plan 9 is a misunderstood progressist. Please Chris, be respectful with this project. PD: I understand that at least you have googled your questions or you have looked into the wikipedia.... Well... In case you didn't find the Plan 9 wiki address, it is on http://9fans.net PPD: You can also read a copy of this mail-list messages on groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9 On 6/1/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > 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 >