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This Plan 9 nostalgia weirds me out. It never happened! It was vaporware all along! It's like having fond memories of Hillary Clinton's inauguration speech.
by skrebbel 7y ago
This Plan 9 nostalgia weirds me out. It never happened! It was vaporware all along!
It's like having fond memories of Hillary Clinton's inauguration speech.
- ainar-g 7y ago> It was vaporware all along! I don't think “vapourware” means what you think it means. To elaborate, the comparison with an alternative universe is silly, since there are actually papers that people can read and there is actually code that people can use. So saying that “it never happened” is wrong.
- icedchai 7y agoI installed Plan 9 once back in the 90's. It certainly exists, it just never reached mass levels of acceptance.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoI installed it in the mid-2000s to be cool. I'd say it's closer to the DMC DeLorean: short production run, works but has short comings, more of a meme than an actual commodity. It's not vaporware though, they definitely delivered something that works. It's just that there wasn't a good reason to use it compared to other options.
- rm445 7y agoAre you mixing up Plan9 with some legendary vapourware OS, MULTICS or something? Maybe the HURD? (NB: not entirely vapourware, but less finished than Plan9). Because Plan9 was (and is) a real system that you could (and can) run.
- yiyus 7y agoI was using Plan 9 for years, attended several workshops, and even was paid to work on it for a little while. It happened.
- smabie 7y agoI mean, you can run it right now...