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| From | wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL |
| Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:23:43 -04-59 (UTC) |
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> On 2014-02-17 15:05:01 +0000, 2phar said: > > Plan 9 interests me, though I doubt I could get it working on my > hardware. Part of me wonders if the extreme "everything is a file" > philosphy isn't the equivalent of the OSI stack - theoretically good, > perhaps, but maybe too much in practice. You should check out the Plan9 stuff at http://cat-v.org/ ... they forked it quite a while ago, and just released a new version in January. > Also on my list of things to tinker with is a VMS/VAX system. I used > one for producing mechanical drawings back when I was working in > landsurveying for a company that used a drafting program on a MiniVAX. > It was my first exposure to a minicomputer, having spent a couple years > on IBM desktops. VMS is an interesting system. I once administered a couple of DEC Alpha systems that ran OpenVMS 6.1... this was toward the end of the 20th. Anyway, it felt really "old" to me... powerful, but arcane. > Also, Glenda the Rabbit as an icon, is awesome. I think these days > she's one of the best unknown icons out there, less well-known even > than Beastie. Gordon, the Go Gopher (for the Google Go language) is from the same artist, Renee' French. She's married to Rob Pike, a principal behind both projects.
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Finally Plan 9 is GPL 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-17 15:05 +0000
Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 16:23 +0000
Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 12:23 +0000
Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL Change Adverse <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-02-17 21:55 -0600
Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-18 16:56 +0000
Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-18 17:04 -0800
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