9fans archive / 1994 / 11 / 6 / prev next From: Arnold Robbins arnold@cc.... Subject: The Second Coming of P9 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 13:53:57 -0500 > | Even the Bell Labs guys don't know. Last I heard (a week or two ago), work > | was continuing, with lots of stuff being back-ported from Brazil to > | Plan 9, but still no definite date. Sigh. > > Why do any back-porting? Why not just release Brazil? Again, this is repeating what I was told, but Brazil is not even stable yet. There are people at BTL who use Plan 9 for day to day work, so stuff is being back ported since it's useful. Brazil is nowhere ready for release, it's neither stable nor even documented... Arnold