[protomyth]

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

[jff]

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.