From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.