Re: [9fans] more dumb questions

[Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>]

1) as its README says:
---
This directory contains an approximation to the the
sources included in the 1995, Release 2 edition of
Plan 9, pertinent to the construction of Sun SLC,
Sparcstation 2, and Sparcstation 10 kernels.  It also
includes some related files that may help the porter,
including similar vintage ports for the PC and Gnot.
Although it includes relevant C header files,
it does not include the sources for the libraries.
---

It looks like it's a gzipped tar file.

1a) Some of us have 2e source, but it's covered by the
more-restrictive 2e licence, and you can't those licences any more.

2) Probably; it's just 9P (and the new Styx is supposed to be quite
close to 9P2000).

4) [sic] `Three, sir!' It will take some work to update a 2e sparc
kernel to 4e.  Just running a 2e kernel might work; I don't think 9P1
changed enough after 2e to matter, as long as you don't need 9P2000
for anything.

There is only one Plan 9 book, from 1995, and it's in German.  You can
get it from amazon.de if you really want it.  I was told by a famous
publisher that there is no market for a Plan 9 book.