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From: Mariusz@fbits.ttank.com (Mariusz Stanczak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Plan 9 (was Re: FYI: "FSF work on a GNU OS" poste
Summary: Not quite for home
Message-ID: <120@fbits.ttank.com>
Date: 20 May 91 04:56:08 GMT
References: <112@fbits.ttank.com> <1991May18.155116.22200@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1991May18.155116.22200@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) writes:
> Speaking of which, what is PLAN 9 (other than the original Unix guys'
> next unix.)  Where can I get more info about it?  Why does noone

...and not quite unix.  Let me reffer for to a recent article in Unix
World called (I think) Plan 9 From Outer Space (just like the movie).
Unfortunatelly, I do not have the article handy to give you more details 
'cept it was still in this year' issue.


> on this group talk about getting a Plan 9 port to the 3b1 instead
> of a Mach port or minix port or whatever.

Reasons are many, and they will be obvious to you after you read the article,
but two should be enough to quote here;  first, it is a multiprocessor/network
OS with servers for files, compute needs, etc.  The other is that it's being
kept under covers, and if I remember right; it's not even yet made available
to academia.

-Mariusz
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