> I know all these questions seem a bit crazy for an ancient system > thats hasn't really caught on with the general whole computer > world....and its only being used as an OS research platform for the > computer science researchers....but it would be cool to have such an > unknown system to work.
it's interesting that you call plan 9 an ancient system. what are you comparing it to? unix is almost twenty years older than plan 9. i'm not sure why age is a metric for evaluating operating systems. plan 9 is not just a research operating system; products based on it ship every day. - erik