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From: "Laurent Malvert" <laurent.malvert@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Looking to buy Plan 9 full kit from 1995
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:30:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a186e7650703251530l2c099a8ax794886cd258e8bd5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0703250732v3636f5fdi446f62ecd772b09a@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/25/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> On 3/24/07, reidc@cableone.net <reidc@cableone.net> wrote:
> >     Hi,
> >
> >            I am looking to buy a full Plan 9 kit from 1995.
> >  "The full kit (ISBN 0-03-017143-1) will be shipped with a CD-ROM, four
> > diskettes and two manuals."
>
> There are very few reasons why one would want this kit
> instead of downloading a current CD from
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 and buying printed
> manuals from Vita Nuova.
>

By the way, in the case of that Vita Nuova CD+manuals package, is the
CD being sold up to date with the current sources ? or is it the 2002
version of the 4th Edition ?

-- 
Laurent Malvert [laurent.malvert@gmail.com]


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-25 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-24  4:56 reidc
2007-03-25 14:32 ` Russ Cox
2007-03-25 17:41   ` Anthony Sorace
2007-03-25 22:30   ` Laurent Malvert [this message]
2007-03-26 10:01     ` C H Forsyth
2007-03-26 23:53       ` Laurent Malvert
2007-03-27 14:13         ` John Krug

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