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Your comparison to OS/2 may be apt. The details are a bit murky for me, but as far as I can tell from Wikipedia[1], OS/2 3.0 was at some point simply renamed to
by maggit 12y ago
Your comparison to OS/2 may be apt. The details are a bit murky for me, but as far as I can tell from Wikipedia[1], OS/2 3.0 was at some point simply renamed to Windows NT, which of course is the underlying technology for Windows as we know it today.
That is; Plan 9 is a research project and it is relevant the way research is relevant: For the future.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
- twoodfin 12y agoThat's not at all what happened. NT was a completely new OS foundation, unless you think Dave Cutler borrowed pieces of his own VMS work at Digital. In some alternate Microsoft strategic universe it might have been released as "OS/2 3.0", but it has effectively no inheritance from the OS/2 1.x/2.x/3.x code base.