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From: rob pike rob@pla...
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 future (Was: Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:33:33 -0400

Alef was dropped because it was too laborious to maintain two compilers
and sets of libraries across an ever-growing list of architectures.  The
concurrent programming aspects of Alef were simulated by a new thread
library for C, and that is what we use now.  The syntax isn't as pretty but
the semantics is very close.

-rob