From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:10:27 +1100 Message-ID: <775b8d191001081510x49de8614hc3d85d4f948af15f@mail.gmail.com> From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] vms Topicbox-Message-UUID: baee627a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The digital group was in Adelaide. Shand worked for them and Mudge was the honcho. Does that help? I'm still in contact with Shand - he visited last month. I'll give it a try. brucee On 1/8/10, Jeff Sickel wrote: > No, I'm not suggesting VAX/VMS on this channel:: > > Though I really enjoyed working on VAX Forth-sim/VMS so way- > back that the wayback machine at web.archive.org can't find it. > If brucee could track down the creator in Australia I'd be > much obliged. He worked for DEC of course, I might have some > paper trail to dig up if that would help. But be warned, > it's BITNET email addresses and some physical locations that > most likely don't exist anymore. I'm fairly certain that my old > tape backups are no longer viable. > > Anyway... I was just trying reconstruct a couple of my semi-defunct > VMware images when I sadly ran across "Glenda'OS Light". No, it's not > a nice image of Plan 9, but yet another distro that makes the phrase > "death before disco" more than apt. So what I'm thinking is: we've > got all these various constructions of Plan 9 and Inferno out there, > including Ron's nice *inux images, but there's not a single searchable > site that provides a quick reference release that would give us inroads > to all the /other/ operating systems available these days. Is the plan9 > wiki page on vm installation the best place to approach this? Or should > we encourage something that puts Plan 9 and Inferno images out into the > general audience on all the different sites so that there's something > that can always be updated? > > -jas > > >