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>The Inferno Business Unit closed after three years [1999-2000], and was sold to Vita Nuova Holdings.[1]

From what I can understand, Inferno was wanted by corporate to compete with Java, the original Bell Labs team kept working on Plan 9 until the last 4th edition released in 2002 (the year when Rob Pike left for Google).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)


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