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Plan 9 would have to contend with a huge install base issue. Remember academics had been using Unix freely since the 1960's and had a massive pile of code plus
by wbl 5y ago
Plan 9 would have to contend with a huge install base issue. Remember academics had been using Unix freely since the 1960's and had a massive pile of code plus every machine worth mentioning. Plan 9 would be trying to catch up from a very delayed position.
- pjmlp 5y agoWoah there, UNIX only reached academic world after UNIX V6, released in 1975 and its first Assembly version was born in 1969, only being released to the world in 1973.