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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: UNIX systems
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cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

> In article <8734fgvdzr.fsf@example.com>,
> Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:
>>
>>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it so bad it wraps around to being good,
>>>
>>> Yip.  The overflow flips the sign bit.
>>
>>Lol!  Let me also take the opportunity to thank everyone for this
>>thread.  I don't feel like watching Plan 9 From Outer Space, but if they
>>had a plan to revive dead corpses on Earth, I believe they mean that
>>Plan 9 could be seen as a way to revive UNIX?  But UNIX isn't dead! :P
>
> "Not only is Unix dead, it's starting to smell really bad."
>  (from Rob Pike (author of, "The Unix Porgramming Environment"
> 	  ...and much of the Plan 9 operating system. :-D)
>
> I've never found the original reference for that quote, for what
> it's worth, but Rob has never denied it, either.

But I'd bet he means it research-wise.  I meant it in how popular UNIX
systems are, even though I still think Windows is the most popular on
people's notebooks.  (And Paul Graham claimed in 2007 that Microsoft is
dead---but he meant it creatively, not in market share.)

Microsoft is Dead, Paul Graham, 2007
https://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html