To my knowledge, there was never a link between Plan 9 and Domain/OS.

As I understood it, Domain/OS was more influenced by Multics and maybe the
Pr1me machines than anything else. Plan 9 came from the Unix heritage (and
thus had Multics as a grandparent, in a manner of speaking).

If there was any connection at all, I suspect it was tenuous and more in
the form of an indirect influence, such as an idea someone got from a paper
or something like that.

        - Dan C.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:11 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:

> Apologies that this isn't specifically a Unix specific question but I
> was wondering if anyone had insight in running domain/OS and it's
> relationship to Plan 9 (assuming there is any).
>
> One of my early mentors was a former product person at Apollo in Mass.
> and was nice enough to tell me all sorts of war stories working there.
> I had known about Plan9 at the time, and from what he described to me
> about domain/OS it sounded like there was lots of overlap between the
> two from a high level design perspective at the least.  I've always been
> keen to understand if domain/OS grew out of former Bell Labs folks, or
> how it got started.
>
> As an aside, he gifted me a whole bunch of marketing collateral from
> Apollo (from before the HQ acquisition) that i'd be happy to share if
> there is any historical value in that.  At the time I was a
> video/special effects engineer are was amazed at how beneficial having
> something like domain/OS or Plan9 would have been for us, it felt we
> were basically trying to accomplish a lot of the same goals by duct
> taping a bunch of Irix and Linux systems together.
>
> Cheers,
> -pete
>
> --
> Pete Wright
> pete@nomadlogic.org
> @nomadlogicLA
>
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