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On Sun, 4 Aug 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 8/4/24 1:10 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2024-08-04, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>>
>>>     And if any young gurus have envisioned some new OS with
>>>     much of the Linux goodness/solidity/simplicity - now's the
>>>     time to really get into writing it.
>> 
>> Whatever happened to Plan 9?
>
>  P9 is still out there, still works, almost overkill
>  for single-user boxes/servers. It was really writ
>  for big clusters/distributed.
>
>  But there's not enough interest/$$$ to push it forward
>  very much or get developers to port newer code.
>
>  I'd love to see VMS revived for the 21st century.
>  It was a really good, versatile, advanced OS that
>  did 'net' back when 'net' was 110-baud modems.
>  Alas, so far, VMS is still "owned" - not freeware
>  or 'abandonedware' like P9.
>
>  Oh, DID come a across some pix from a several years ago
>  celebrating P9 being ported to the big IBM mainframes.
>  Nothing much seems to have COME from it, but it IS
>  there for the Big Computing world.
>

But OpenVMS has been ported to x86. Or does the port lack some feature you 
want?