From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) From: Andrew Simmons In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:57:50 +1300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <413480BF-A58B-4524-A4EF-3327D3C23AB6@gmail.com> References: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] copy of 9.txt.gz? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6e6ac138-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Oct 2, 2015, at 4:53 am, Charles Forsyth = wrote: >=20 >=20 > On 1 October 2015 at 15:48, Brantley Coile = wrote: > I think he meant the Plan 9 Lion=E2=80=99s commentary, not the Sixth = Edition one. >=20 > Yes, and that was in the text I quoted in my reply! This from jmk to the list iin 2001: I would have let this one by but as the spirit of the great Jimi was invoked I feel compelled to reply. Here's what appeared on the list last time this came up: From: "rob pike" Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:17:55 -0400 > In the Peer-to-Peer edition of the Lion's book, there is a = brief > mention of a booklet that Lion wrote commenting on Plan 9 = source. > This was apparently during his last sabbatical (1989 or so). > Presumably this implies something on the order of the 1st = edition. > Would THIS beast be available? No. Even for the very very early version of the system it = described, it was incomplete and somewhat confused. John was really = looking for a new version of the Unix kernel and didn't find it. I'm not = sure if any copies exist, but if they do, I still wouldn't distribute = them. They are a poor description of the system and an unworthy legacy = for for John Lions. -rob No machine-readable copy exists and Rob's last sentence is spot on. --jim