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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:32:55 +0200
From: Jan Hubicka hubicka@horac.ta.jcu.cz
Subject: [9fans] Porting XaoS (saga continues)
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On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 08:40:07AM -0700, Tom Duff wrote:
> On Sep 10, 10:53am, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > Opps. I have just demo installation so I can't read sources :(
> > I really want to see them, but I am poor student and $120 is too much
> > for me :(
> 
> If you're a student, and you can find a few more interested students
> (say 10, total) at your institution, you could each pony up a small fraction
I am trying to do that. I fact I asked my school to buy it and they agree
so, if I will find enought students interested in it. Problem is that
school buyed spring deveral years ago, and no one uses it so they think
that with plan9 it should be similiar.
So I am currently looking for students (and project) for plan9.
> of the cost and buy a distribution for your school.  The license is a site
> license, so you can all use the system under the auspices of the school.
> 
> Uhh, you probably have to have permission to act under the school's
> auspices, but surely you can find a teacher that thinks this is a good idea.
I tried so, but the teacher for unix send me to some other thaches for operating
system and when I came there, he was playing syndicate in win95, so thats
probably purpose why he was so angry to me :(
They also say that fact that plan9 is dead is bad, and it should be better
to wait for brazil.
> 
> Also, the cost is about $350, not $120, but 10% of that is still only $35.
Well $35 is all money I earn for a month... (when I skip money payed
for house ($70))
> Of course you only get one paper copy of the documentation, but the CD-ROM
> has machine-readable versions of everything in the books.
OK..
I personally think that it is bad, that plan9 is not free. I don't think
Bell-labs should get any significant amount of money for selling plan9,
so it should be better to make it free, since it has so may interesting 
ideas and I think that everyone who is interested in Operating Systems 
should definitly see it.

During deverlopment period of XaoS3.0 I again saw how much easier is thinks
under plan9/8 1/2 in comparation to UNIX/X11 (well mainly X11...) I enjoyed
fact, that plan9 has such small standard library but when I need some
function (like coprocessor control/image saving) it is usually there.
Except thread stuff, but I agree that aleph is right think to do. Only
problem is that alepth is plan9/SGI only, as far as I know.

Honza
> 
> -- 
> Tom Duff, KF6LWB

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