From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-20 00:30:55 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours and 7 minutes ago)
> thanks for setting me straight.  for some reason, i thought my company
> had shipped several thousand units based on plan 9.  i don't know what
> would have given me that idea.

Somebody would make a bad choice anyway. Microsoft shipped "thousands" of 
copies of Microsoft Bob before they learnt about their mistake. Let's see 
if your company, founded 2000, survives its Coraid Bob. And I hear your 
primary source of sustenance is an AoE driver for _Linux_. You're leeching 
another OS's user base and boasting doing Plan 9? Where would you be 
without "Linux Support for EtherDrive (R) Storage?" 
(http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/)

> also, could you send me the new subtraction table we're supposed
> to be using.
>
> [Pike90] R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, H. Trickey,
> ``Plan 9 from Bell Labs'',
> .I
> UKUUG Proc. of the Summer 1990 Conf. ,
> London, England,
> 1990.

Yes. According to Wikipedia:

"It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing 
Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002."

Mid-1980s ~ 1985
Current date (here) = August 20, 2008

2008 - 1985 + 1 = 24. Update your table.

Apparently, Plan 9 was being developed some years before the paper. You 
know, you gotta do something with the free time on your hand. Create an OS, 
for example. And pull a paper out of it after some years.

By the way, what exactly happened to Plan 9 on 2002? Was it "dismantled?" 
Or did they shut the "furnace" down?

--On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:34 PM -0400 erik quanstrom 
<quanstro <at> quanstro.net> wrote:

>> It's a "research"
>> platform for those who want to "tell" other people what they should do
>> and  how they should do it and why any other way would be "sacrilege."
>
> thanks for setting me straight.  for some reason, i thought my company
> had shipped several thousand units based on plan 9.  i don't know what
> would have given me that idea.
>
>> No wonder
>> it has remained as minuscule and insignificant--9people tell you it's
>> "nimble," don't believe them--as it is after like 24 years of
>> "development."
>
> also, could you send me the new subtraction table we're supposed
> to be using.
>
> [Pike90] R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, H. Trickey,
> ``Plan 9 from Bell Labs'',
> .I
> UKUUG Proc. of the Summer 1990 Conf. ,
> London, England,
> 1990.
>
> - erik
>
>