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Re:The Plan 9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it isn'... by protomyth on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:02PM (#11792116)
The actual product ended up being Inferno, and that ran into the combined Java marketing campaign and Lucent's lack of ability to market anything to developers. Well, Lucent continued a tradition that flowed from AT&T's UNIX PC[1] and all their various weird marketing once they got free of the monopoly restrictions.

1) they did get the cover of Byte https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-05

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Re:The Plan 9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it isn'... by jff on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @11:39AM (#11807173)
By "the actual product" you mean "a completely different OS written on a virtual machine that happens to also run on Plan 9", then yes. Inferno has 9P, it has a lot of the same good stuff as Plan 9, but there's a pretty big gulf between the two and fluency in one does not translate to fluency in the other.
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