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Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2009 13:06:17 +0200
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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] the old floppy set
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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
>
>