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It seems that (almost?) everything that was planned out for plan9 is finding its way into operating systems.

The ideas were good, but somehow they had to take the long way around. It was way ahead of its time.

I remember an interview with one of the ex-Plan9 people now at Google (Rob Pike maybe?) talking about how he's switched to Linux, since that's what Google runs on, and finds it a strange experience, as if a bunch of bugs you thought you'd fixed 20 years ago have resurfaced in the main branch. But Linux does seem to be picking up a steady number of the features.

It was Rob Pike from the slashdot interview. http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pi...

Thanks for the link. (irrelevant: I like how he used wOOd to represent OO programming)

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