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shimon_e on Feb 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plan 9: The way the future was

The real shame is that inferno never became android. It was around early enough. Had the right feature set. I guess it was not in Google's backyard (America) and had lost it's backbone a little to early.

I guess when Google was shopping for mobile OS they were also looking for a talent grab. With Inferno by 2005 most had already left.

sambeau on Feb 1, 2012 | [–]

True, but, they already had all the talent from Plan 9

luriel on Feb 1, 2012 | [–]

By 2005 most of the team that created Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs were already working at Google.

But they were working on other stuff, like Go.

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