Plan 9? (+ others)

[Ozan Yigit]

In article <282 at umbio.MIAMI.EDU> jherr at umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Jack Herrington) 
writes:
>
>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'!.

Heheeee.. You make an interesting point. [You forgot to include
minix] Did I hear someone mention "standards" ?? Or does history
repeat itself ?? Yep, It does. rec.humor should get lotsa postings
within the year 2000, about portability, standards, the "ultimate"
Un*x, and other trivia about "my nix is better then your nix" while
someone at Bell labs is running plan-9 warp 8, ["release" would be a
misnomer] and the neighborhood cabbie is re-writing cat -v ... FSF
folks will be puzzling over "GNU: not enough core" messages on a
1024 meg sun5/3000. Doug Gwyn's rack will contain a 35-volume SXID
(system-10 Interface Definition) that will be the latest AT&T-SUN
sub-standard. [Sources will require a security clearence].

oz


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