However... back to the "failure" thing... everyone kept commenting on
how it wasn't a commercial success.... I'm under the impression that I
read in the Plan 9 docs that it was always intended as a Research OS...
specifically, even though it succeeded in coming up with cool new OS
ideas, they weren't even researching new OS concepts, they were
researching how to design an OS (in other words, Plan 9 was a project
designed to research the art of designing a new OS). I can't think of
where to get a quote on this.. but think one of the public Plan 9 docs
said something to this effect..... so I don't think commercial success
was ever a criteria for Plan 9.
In any case.. there were two spinoffs of Plan 9 that I'm aware of:
Inferno is the attempt at a commercial spinoff... Inferno shares some
kernel code with Plan 9, and some concepts (namespacing comes to
mind)... It doesn't appear that Inferno is on track for commercial
success, but maybe it is still coming.. or maybe I just don't keep up
with it well enough anymore. The other spinoff was Brazil... it was a
spinoff of the Plan 9 codebase, along the same lines (i.e. a super-unix)
but it was supposed to be a secret project that the public never got to
touch... god only knows what happened to it....
(plz cc my email.. I'm not subscribed)
Brandon
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