From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8058ddc8f229701e1df5b814dbcf7046@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] more dumb questions From: Geoff Collyer In-Reply-To: <20040314065738.25499.qmail@web13126.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:41:15 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e4792fe-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.