Why Plan-9?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:52:11AM -0500, Jim Choate (ravage at einstein.ssz.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:53:35PM -0500, Jim Choate (ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com) wrote:
> > > This entire view misses the(!) one most important component of Unix's (and
> > > Linux's) success, they were first.
> > 
> > Not hardly.
> 
> Yes, very particularly in fact.
>  
> > I wasn't keeping notes when K&R were designing their gaming
> > platform, but history seems to recall OS/360, Multics, TICO, ITS,
> > VMS.  A bit of quick Googling suggests the PDP-7 had its own native
> > operating system (the PDP-11 certainly did), certainly more than
> > what a couple of guys hanging around a broom closet could hammer out
> > in a few days.
> 
> Being 'first' doesn't imply they were 'alone'. You misrepresent
> reality to your own end.

Define your market or relevant niche, with specificity.

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