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> Plan 9 failed, in a sense, because Unix was simply too big and too entrenched by the time Plan 9 came around. So many good ideas in so many areas didn't go o
by slmjkdbtl 4y ago
> Plan 9 failed, in a sense, because Unix was simply too big and too entrenched by the time Plan 9 came around.
So many good ideas in so many areas didn't go off for this reason (some previous design is already too widely adopted)..
- hulitu 4y agoAnother reason was that the GUI would not run on most systems.