Plan 9?

[Jack Herrington]

in article <846 at yunexus.UUCP>, oz at yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) says:
> 
>In article <565 at unisv.UUCP> vanpelt at unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>>
>>"Plan 9"... as in "Plan 9 From Outer Space"?  
> 
> Marketing ?? What marketing ?? Rob Pike says the ordinary mortals
> will never see it, and it is a "pure" re-write of Un*x, by Pike,
> Thompson, others. I know of no published paper about it, but Pike
> will occasionally do a lecture on it. [I think EUUG got one last
> year.]
> 

So how many re-writes of UNIX do we have running right now, let me 
see how many I know of.

- Berkeley is developing BSD 4.4
- AT&T is developing SVr4.
- GNU is making GNU.
- Sun and AT&T are "merging" UNIX for AT&T SVr5?
- Plan 9.
- Xenix.
- Posix.
- Mach (not UNIX, but damn close).

There have to be others, maybe I can keep sort of a running list and
post it to both here and 'rec.humor'!.

-Jack Herrington
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