On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Tom Metro<[email protected]> wrote:
> Yesterday I saw a Toyota Matrix in Watertown with a vanity plate that read
> "PLAN 9." I wondered if it was someone on one of the local tech lists.

yeah- i've seen it too.

> What was the history again? A bad sci-fi film, then an OS?

song by the beatles ... ~

the os was hyped as next gen unix for a while. i think ritchie worked
on it. it was designed with scale in mind, so on a single workstation,
you weren't seeing the whole amazing picture.

i thought it looked cool too. in a way like the mac did in 1984.

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