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by runjake 2521 days ago
Many would argue Plan 9 did succeed -- as a research OS. Many of its ideas and concepts trickled into other OSes.

There are many reasons for it's failure to gain traction as a general purpose OS, but one major one is that it was never marketed as a general use OS. It was always in the realm of a research OS. So that all but "doomed" it from the start.