From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <509071940703251041i38df39e1k950872182298b5ac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:41:01 -0400 From: "Anthony Sorace" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Looking to buy Plan 9 full kit from 1995 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <40007.1174712168@cableone.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 30dfa128-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/25/07, Russ Cox wrote: > There are very few reasons why one would want this kit > instead of downloading a current CD from > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 and buying printed > manuals from Vita Nuova. Note that VN's kit also comes with the CD; should be everything you need, at least on a PC. > What are yours? (I'm just curious.) > > I don't know of any current sources for buying the 1995 set. indeed. i had a full set back in '97-ish, but have since lost the disks. a few years ago i tried to replace them; amazon had a used full set available for about $650, which was way to high just to satisfy my sense of historical completeness. now all they've got is something ambiguously called "Plan 9 From Bell Labs (Paperback)" which, if you read the comments, seems to be a photocopied reprint (and i'm still not sure which volume it's a reprint of, although i imagine Volume 1; several such things were created at the Labs once we could no longer get hard copies for new hires) for $15.