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Plan 9 is a mostly academic project. It was born out of the research lab and never really became a "product". Solaris was a 30 year series of successive engine
by techdragon 11y ago
Plan 9 is a mostly academic project. It was born out of the research lab and never really became a "product".
Solaris was a 30 year series of successive engineering projects focused on providing valuable concrete improvements to what was previously just an academic project, the early unix releases were definitely academic regardless of their future commercial impact.
- tedks 11y agoThere's a very, very large difference between corporate research and actual academia. The motivation of the people involved are totally different. I wouldn't consider either project "academic" even if they were primarily conducted in industrial research labs.