Jonathan
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Kris Karas wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
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> > > Whatever you want to think of Mr. Thompson, the man has more programming mileage
> > > than most people here, and Plan-9 is definitely _NOT_ a failure.
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> > Isn't plan9 what the AT&T ES switches run for an OS? I'd certainly not
> > consider it a failure under those circumstances.
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> Depends upon which version of switch. I worked on one such version, which used an
> embedded LISP machine running a stripped down version of Symbolics Genera to do the
> honors; it had some hairy expert-system code to make complex routing decisions in
> real-time. Anyhow, that was six years ago; time has a way of changing things. :-)
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> It's too bad the single-board LISPM was never marketed so as to be accessible to the
> typical end-user; it would have stood a chance to rank along with Linux as an
> alternative for the OS enlightened. Although not generally quoted, Sun publicly
> conceded that it took six weeks to prototype and develop an application (using their
> best software development environment) which took just one week on the LISPM. Being
> the market leader, they knew the quote wouldn't hurt business.
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