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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro <at> quanstro.net>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-19 22:34:07 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 1 day, 8 hours and 4 minutes ago)
> 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