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Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs?

From "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs?
Date 2012-01-10 05:39 -0500
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"gavino" <gavcomedy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>  What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs?

Eric S. Raymond already accurately answered that question in the first
sentence attributed to him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

> It seems technically awesome but the user interface kicked my ass.

No, it seems obsolete.  Primary development stopped in 2002.  The few
"advanced" ideas of value mentioned on the Wikipedia page seem to have been
copied by BSD, Linux, and Windows many years ago.


Rod Pemberton

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What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? gavino <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 02:23 -0800
  Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-10 05:39 -0500
    Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-01-12 11:09 -0800
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-01-12 11:11 -0800
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Pavel Klinkovsky <pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com> - 2012-01-12 12:53 -0800
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-14 04:30 -0500
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Arnold Doray <invalid@invalid.com> - 2012-01-14 15:40 +0000
  Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-01-10 07:22 -0800

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