Perry,<br>Point taken; by "descendant" I meant the same developers as SysV, but yeah they don't think of it as merely a unix flavor at all. <br>Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Perry E. Metzger <<a href="mailto:perry@piermont.com">perry@piermont.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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"Peter St. John" <<a href="mailto:peter.st.john@gmail.com">peter.st.john@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> I was surprised to see Plan 9 deployed on a Blue Gene,<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene#Plan_9_support" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene#Plan_9_support</a>.<br>
> I think of Plan 9 as the direct descendant of System V;<br>
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</div>Not even remotely related to System V, and Rob Pike would probably<br>
giggle uproariously at the idea. In fact, Plan 9 is sort of the<br>
anti-SysV.<br>
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> Has anybody tried it?<br>
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It is neat, but it is even more fringe than the normal fringe<br>
choices...<br>
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Perry<br>
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