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In 1993 Rob had a very small demo all on a floppy.  I took a friend to
a computer store and booted it on one of the display machines and
gave a short talk on Plan 9.

 Brantley

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> I am sure I remember Rob Pike giving a talk to AUUG in Sydney a long
> time ago, which included a demo of Plan9 running entirely from a floppy.
> I guess it has grown a little since then..

Much more likely, it was a system booted from a CD.  A variant of the
system fit on a floppy - and still does - but for demo purposes you always
wanted more on disk than could squeeze on a floppy.

-rob

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