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From: jmk@pla... jmk@pla...
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 future (Was: Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:44:52 -0400

	>> Alef is gone.
	>
	>That seems a pity.  I, for one, found it intriguing and exciting.  What
	>does that do for ACME?  Where did ACME lead?  Have the Oberon graphics
	>found their way in there?

My memory may be a little fuzzy on this but if I remember correctly there were
only 3 substantial programmes written in Alef - acme, rio and the IP stack. The
IP stack found its way back into the kernel and the other two were converted to
use a new thread library.

	>Ah, well, no doubt we'll find out before long.

Hopefully, yes.