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Re: off off topic: Unix lives or dies?




Hi!

On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Ariel Nowersztern wrote:

> Last time I heard Plan9 development was discontinued, and a small group 
> inside AT&T, that developed a variant called Eclipse, took the leading 
> role. This is unconfirmed.
> 
> What should be nice is Inferno from Lucent Technologies (also developed 
> in Bell Labs). A few excerpts (See http://inferno.lucent.com/inferno/):

And this is an excerpt from the plan9 FAQ:

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<H5>Subject: What are Brazil and Inferno?</H5></a>
<P>
Brazil is the next research project after Plan 9,
and is strictly internal to Bell Labs at this time.
The kernel data paths have been re-architected to
take advantage of faster machines and networks.
Work on Brazil has been stalled, as the developers have been pulled
off the Brazil project to work on Inferno.
The abstract of a talk on Brazil given by Rob Pike is at
<A href="http://plan9.wtf.nyc.ny.us/brazil.html">
http://plan9.wtf.nyc.ny.us/brazil.html</a>
<p>
Inferno is an operating system for delivering interactive media to its
users.
It is intended to be used in a variety of emerging network environments,
for example in TV set-top boxes attached to cable systems,
advanced telephones, hand-held devices, and inexpensive networked
computers,
but also in conjunction with traditional computing systems.
More Inferno information is available at
<A href="http://inferno.bell-labs.com/inferno/">
http://inferno.bell-labs.com/inferno/</a>
<br>
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So I guess it's just a matter of priorities within Bell and plan9 just
took the back sit, for now.

					Eli


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