My reply in THIS thread was that Plan 9 was never a mainstream commercial
sucess, and commending on Ken Thompson's use of the phrase "[Linux] will
probably not be very suscessful".
I remember a lot of buzz in the mid 90's that Plan 9 was designed to be
the next "Unix killer", and then the project got pulled. If you go through
Bell Labs web pages on Plan 9, there is a comment that there is no on at
Bell working on it, instead most members got pulled to Inferno, or other
projects.
AND I stated that my impression was that technically, Plan 9 was a very
good and elegant system. It just didn't go anywhere.
jf
On Thu, 6 May 1999, David Miller wrote:
> Isn't plan9 what the AT&T ES switches run for an OS? I'd certainly not
> consider it a failure under those circumstances.
>
> And to call plan9 a failure because it hasn't achieved a widely accepted
> position in the computer comunity is simply ignorant:(
>
> --- David Miller
>
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