thanks for setting me straight. for some reason, i thought my company
had shipped several thousand units based on plan 9. i don't know what
would have given me that idea.
Somebody would make a bad choice anyway. Microsoft shipped "thousands" of
copies of Microsoft Bob before they learnt about their mistake. Let's see
if your company, founded 2000, survives its Coraid Bob. And I hear your
primary source of sustenance is an AoE driver for _Linux_. You're leeching
another OS's user base and boasting doing Plan 9? Where would you be
without "Linux Support for EtherDrive (R) Storage?"
(http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/)
also, could you send me the new subtraction table we're supposed
to be using.
[Pike90] R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, H. Trickey,
``Plan 9 from Bell Labs'',
.I
UKUUG Proc. of the Summer 1990 Conf. ,
London, England,
1990.
Yes. According to Wikipedia:
"It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing
Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002."
Mid-1980s ~ 1985
Current date (here) = August 20, 2008
2008 - 1985 + 1 = 24. Update your table.
Apparently, Plan 9 was being developed some years before the paper. You
know, you gotta do something with the free time on your hand. Create an OS,
for example. And pull a paper out of it after some years.
By the way, what exactly happened to Plan 9 on 2002? Was it "dismantled?"
Or did they shut the "furnace" down?
--On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:34 PM -0400 erik quanstrom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's a "research"
platform for those who want to "tell" other people what they should do
and how they should do it and why any other way would be "sacrilege."
thanks for setting me straight. for some reason, i thought my company
had shipped several thousand units based on plan 9. i don't know what
would have given me that idea.
No wonder
it has remained as minuscule and insignificant--9people tell you it's
"nimble," don't believe them--as it is after like 24 years of
"development."
also, could you send me the new subtraction table we're supposed
to be using.
[Pike90] R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, H. Trickey,
``Plan 9 from Bell Labs'',
.I
UKUUG Proc. of the Summer 1990 Conf. ,
London, England,
1990.
- erik
