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Earliest reference to Plan 9 is 1984: http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/ http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/
by smorrow 7y ago
Earliest reference to Plan 9 is 1984: http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/ http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/
- LukeShu 7y agoThat 1984 year doesn't seem to be entirely accurate; at a minimum, the article has had additions since 1984 (including the 1998 death of John Lions). The abstract notes that it was published in DaemonNews in 1999. I tracked down the DaemonNews publication: https://web.archive.org/web/20000819035036/http://www.daemonnews.org/199903/history.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000819035036/http://www.daemon... The copy in DaemonNews includes citations that were elided from the copies on cat-v.org and darwinsys.com. Notably, we see that line change from > (More recently, much of this work has been consolidated into an operating system called Plan 9 From Bell Laboratories.) to > (More recently, much of this work has been consolidated into an operating system called Plan 9 From Bell Laboratories.)[Pike1990a, Pike1995a]