From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] An old laptop
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:41:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe877d63b5416abdffc03fce2cbec69a@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
> I am sure I remember Rob Pike giving a talk to AUUG in Sydney a long
> time ago, which included a demo of Plan9 running entirely from a floppy.
> I guess it has grown a little since then..
Much more likely, it was a system booted from a CD. A variant of the
system fit on a floppy - and still does - but for demo purposes you always
wanted more on disk than could squeeze on a floppy.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2002-04-23 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-23 12:41 rob pike, esq. [this message]
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2002-04-23 12:47 bwc
2002-04-23 12:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-04-23 12:46 rob pike, esq.
2002-04-23 11:02 Richard Miller
2002-04-22 16:31 Russ Cox
2002-04-23 8:31 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-04-22 9:30 [9fans] how large is plan9 sys? Quentin
2002-04-22 16:20 ` [9fans] An old laptop Digby Tarvin
2002-04-23 9:09 ` Don
2002-04-23 9:51 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-04-23 10:18 ` Lucio De Re
2002-04-23 10:37 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-04-23 15:41 ` Lucio De Re
2002-04-24 8:59 ` Don
2002-04-23 9:50 ` Boyd Roberts
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