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Re: off off topic: Unix lives or dies?



On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Eli Algranti wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Alexandre Khalil wrote:
 
> > >> And now that NT isn't as portable as it wanted to be (that was one
> > >> potential advantage of it over UNIX), UNIX might survive yet.
> >                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   With the explosion of Linux, this is guaranteed.
> 
> I'm not that sure. Have you seen the plan9 home page? Even if half the
> hype in the page is true, this OS will be a real unix killer once it is
> mature enough.
> It certainly sounds like the kind of OS that could take over my Linux
> partition... then again all I know about plan 9 comes from subjective
> sources.

  If ATT puts the sources of Plan 9 in the public domain, it will
certainly become very interesting.
  If that happens, I am sure the Linux folks will plan9ify Linux kernel
4.x and make an old-linux compatibility box to run older applications
inside the new OS.

alex


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