Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Plan-9 is definitely _NOT_ a failure (Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)) | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 18:45:48 -0700 | From | cjohnson@kookie ... |
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> From : John Kennedy <jk@csuchico.edu> > > I went to a USENIX microkernel conference up in Seattle > .... > Then the microsoft droid came on and and gave us a sales pitch!
The droid was Dave Cutler, who could easily have thrown away the powerpoint slides and done a very respectable technical presentation. If he had flashed one stupid slide, dumped the rest, and drawn replacements on the fly the audience would have given him a standing-O. But talking about market share as an OS theory conference - the horror, the horror.
On the Subject, Plan-9 is not a commercial dead horse: http://www.ncube.com/products/transit.html On the other hand, it isn't doing their heavy lifting.
cj*
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