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From: Berry Kercheval kerch@par...
Subject: Inferno
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:19:12 -0500

>>>Greg Earle said:
 > > The article in the San Jose Mercury mentioned "the first public discussion
 > > of Plan 9".
 > 
 > Actually, I thought the "first public discussion of Plan 9" was when Rob was
 > showing it to Bill Shannon (of Sun) on a teeny 386 laptop back at Winter
 > Usenix '93 in San Diego and a bunch of us were all crowded around   :-)
 
Not even close.  As far as I know, the first formal presentation on plan 9 was 
at the London UKUUG conference in July of 1990 that Sunil Das organized.  
*That* was a fun gig...

  --berry

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@par... :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center