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From: Frank Gleason frankg@hal...
Subject: [9fans] Will I ever use Brazil ?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:43:28 -0700 (PDT)

 
>>  1) Plan 9 was distributed after it was abandoned. Universities
>>     had it before development was completely abandoned but I'll
>>     bet the writing was on the wall.
 
> that comment is misleading: brazil might best be regarded as the further
>  development
>  of plan 9 within the labs.  plan 9 was therefore not `abandoned' in
> the sense that was meant.  (it's also easy to underestimate the painful
> effort required to prepare a disribution.)

I meant abandoned as in:
  We are not developing it.
  We are not running it.
  The code may be on the file server, somewere.


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