From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the old floppy set
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:06:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920908070406r47b0d87bwa2b91e4b69632d4e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f42d88fb5beaf07e32ed0b27612d369@quintile.net>
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Steve Simon<steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> As Anthony says it is very very old, but I might
> be fun if you had the time on your hands. The 2nd edition
> books/cdrom are nolonger available but you might find
> a set seccond hand (abebooks.com etc).
>
> The floppys are here:
> /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/
>
> I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site
> and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org.
Yes, you can find a mirror of the 2nd ed site at
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/plan9.att.com/
And the floppy is available at
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/plan9.att.com/pcdist/ but I
have not tested it, if you do I would love to hear about it.
Enjoy
uriel
> You will need 16Mb to install and 8Mb to run a terminal
> though It will work at 640x480x1 resolution.
>
> The 4th edition should run on a 486, though you will need
> (say) 128Mb of ram - much more if you want to recompile gs(1).
>
> -Steve
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-07 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-07 4:55 John Floren
2009-08-07 5:04 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-07 5:12 ` John Floren
2009-08-07 18:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-08-07 19:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-07 9:15 ` Steve Simon
2009-08-07 10:11 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-07 11:06 ` Uriel [this message]
2009-08-07 14:46 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-08 4:36 ` lucio
2009-08-08 4:49 ` John Floren
2009-08-08 14:48 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-08 15:45 ` ron minnich
2009-08-08 17:11 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-08 18:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-08 18:53 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-08-09 2:31 ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-08 17:05 ` Uriel
2009-08-13 14:11 ` michael block
2009-08-13 14:23 ` John Floren
2009-08-13 14:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 15:11 ` michael block
2009-08-13 15:27 ` erik quanstrom
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