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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:03:10 -0700
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Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)
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Digby R.S. Tarvin writes:

> Oh yes, I read Eldon Halls book on that quite a few years ago. Meetings
> held to discuss competing potential uses for a word of memory that had
> become free.

> That one would be a challenging Plan9 port..

And yet Plan9 was not there to save the day.  Such a pity.