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Plan 9 was not a product though. You seem to be arguing against the concept of research in the software world.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Plan 9 was not a product though. You seem to be arguing against the concept of research in the software world.
- coldtea 10y agoIt was packaged into a product called Inferno later on. And it was only "research" because AT&T (or Lucent at the time?) couldn't sell it.
- protomyth 10y agoTo be fair, Inferno was a bit different with the whole Limbo and VM thing. It really didn't have a chance being targeted at the same market as Java with a whole lot less ad / industry push. Lucent just never got it together for product pushes. 1995 was Lucent, and AT&T did enter the UNIX PC market in the 80's. I got to use a 3B2 in college in 91. Sadly, that was my first UNIX computer.
- jff 10y agoInferno isn't Plan 9. Written by the same people, yes, but it's a different OS running on a virtual machine rather than x86, different programming language, etc. The main commonality is 9P, which enables some other similarities such as Acme, synthetic filesystems, etc.