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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