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From: Frank Gleason frankg@hal...
Subject: [9fans] Will I ever use Brazil ?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:54:21 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 geoff@x.b... wrote:

> As I've said before on this list, don't read too much into the name
> change.  People here continue to develop and run a lineal descendant
> of Plan 9 second edition; it's called Brazil.  Some things have
> changed, but I doubt that any user of second edition would be shocked,
> stunned and flabbergasted if confronted with Brazil.  Anybody who
> thinks Plan 9 withered up and died inside Bell Labs after the second
> edition release is dreaming.
> 
> Did you consider Unix abandoned after the Fifth Edition release?
> after the Sixth Edition release

So, Brazil is to Plan 9 as Sixth Edition is to Fifth Edition?

frankg@hal...