On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM Jay F. Shachter <j...@m5.chicago.il.us> wrote: > > > Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Crystal Kolipe would write on Sun > Jun 15 09:21:14 2025: > > > > > (*) Besides, if the concept was without merit, then Plan-9 would have failed > > as well. > > > > If this was meant as sarcasm or irony, I don't get the joke. What can > you mean by saying "Plan-9 would have failed"? Plan 9 has failed. > > I understand -- and even sympathize -- that the members of this > mailing list are not disposed to consider the statistic of what > proportion of computer users use an operating system. To consider > that statistic would make difficult the conclusion that OpenBSD is an > important and a thriving operating system. > > Nevertheless, there has to be some point at which that statistic has > got to influence your thinking. An operating system that was invented > forty years ago, and that only three people in the world use, has got > to be considered a failed operating system. > > I don't think that anyone is even still working on Plan 9. I have > 9front installed on one of my computers, and it's okay, but I don't > need it for anything, and I don't use it for real work. I like SkyOS > too -- this is not a rhetorical figure, I really do -- but I can't > even install it on modern hardware, and if I could, I couldn't do > anything useful on it. And you may disdain the comparison of a toy > operating system to a serious operating system, but Plan 9, or even > 9front, must at this point be also considered a toy operating system, > which has failed.
And here I am, still working up the courage to run TempleOS - the only operating system designed by GOD!
