From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <509071940908062204v46581da2x658f18c302451cba@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d3530220908062155y6178145ax65e0072ac19fd76e@mail.gmail.com> <509071940908062204v46581da2x658f18c302451cba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:12:19 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220908062212v2c743cebv84f94aad2ecc643e@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] the old floppy set Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c013af0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > that was for 2nd edition. it's now horribly outdated. > > it is also only available under an older, for-pay license that i'm not > sure it's actually possible to buy any more. > > you don't actually want that set unless you're doing archeology. > > I was under the impression that it was a sort of evaluation thing, and then I guess you bought the license which gave you source and other stuff. I'm probably wrong. And yes, I basically am doing archaeology--I don't expect much, I just want to poke around at the old system John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike