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Re: off off topic: Unix lives or dies?
Hi!
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.
Eli
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