From: Mark Tuson <markfptuson@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:02:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <682b76f5-6246-4ac5-ba79-8df29d2be4a7@u10g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472f4228-91d9-4ee0-a794-4bf1a605dd1f@f25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 28, 1:30Â am, st...@quintile.net (Steve Simon) wrote:
> the iso on the bell labs site is built nightly so if you have that you have the
> up-to-date source.
>
> I wouldn't expect there will be a fifth edition as most of the plan9 team from bell
> labs now work at google. Having said this it might happen, it depends on the
> priorities inside lucent-alcatel.
>
> you call update from a mounted iso image if you have no network but
> i cannot remember the exact runes, maybe the 9fans archives will help?
>
> the third edition is not very interesting, it is very similar to the fourth
> but has a different 9p protocol (and a few other things).
>
> the seccond was purchased like a book for $270 (from memory), the cdroms do appear
> (with license card one hopes) on ebay from time to time. I archived the
> four distribution floppies of the binary only "demo" release for posterity.
>
> the first edition was given to universities who expressed an interest,
> like Unix was in its early days. the license for ed1 was restrictive so
> these cdroms don't appear - some people might still have the single demo floppy
> that Rob gave out in london but thats your only hope.
>
> I put some historic papers and distribution images (copyright permitting) onhttp://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/historic, and I believe uriel
> has more onhttp://www.cat-v.org
>
> -Steve
Steve, would you be willing to share copies of the demo discs? Which
architecture do they use? I just want to play with something ancient
as well as modern, then I'll feel like I have a better feel for the
system.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 9:35 Mark Tuson
2010-09-20 11:58 ` Steve Simon
2010-09-27 16:20 ` Mark Tuson
2010-09-28 0:27 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-26 10:50 ` Uriel
2010-10-19 10:02 ` Mark Tuson [this message]
2010-10-19 10:19 ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-19 15:02 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-19 18:05 ` hiro
2010-10-20 8:44 ` Mark Tuson
2010-10-20 13:40 ` Harri Haataja
2010-10-20 16:00 ` Julius Schmidt
2010-10-20 19:39 ` hiro
2010-10-20 20:58 ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-19 10:46 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-20 8:45 ` Mark Tuson
[not found] ` <472f4228-91d9-4ee0-a794-4bf1a605dd1f@f25g2000yqc.googlegroups.co>
2010-09-27 20:24 ` jake
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