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Plan9 is a more "modern" operating systems than UNIX. WindowsNT is also a more modern operating system than UNIX. In so far as when they were created long afte
by ThinkBeat 5y ago
Plan9 is a more "modern" operating systems than UNIX.
WindowsNT is also a more modern operating system than UNIX.
In so far as when they were created long after UNIX.
And Plan9 certainly was at some point hoped to be a successor.
That did not happen.
and the new ideas they had.
- jhbadger 5y agoAlthough Windows NT was in many ways a version of the operating system VMS that failed against UNIX including having the same main architect, Dave Cutler, who hated everything about UNIX and who refused to learn from its success. Plan 9 on the other hand was created by some of the very same people who created UNIX. It learned from UNIX and while it failed, it failed because to most people UNIX was "good enough" and the improvements of Plan 9 weren't compelling enough to switch.
- pjmlp 5y agoMostly because VMS was commercial and UNIX free beer. History would have played quite differently had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX from the get go.