[ale] Plan9

[Geoffrey Myers]

}On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Christopher Fowler wrote:
}
}> Does anyone know if plan9 is free to download to the public and the site
}> to get it?
}> 
}> Thanks,
}> Christopher Fowler
}> 
}> 
}> 
}Last I heard, plan9 is a commercial product of Lucient Technologies now.
}There are some expensive books from one of the major publishing houses,
}which can include the source/binaries for plan9.

Actually, Lucent came out with a product called Inferno which is loosely
based on Plan9.  I got a demo cdrom copy of it at the USENIX conference
in Jan.  I talked to Dennis Ritchie at length about it.

}
}I think you can look up plan9 on the Lucient Technolgies web page.
}
}Now, if somebody would play with plan9 for a while - I would _love_ hear
}about the experience.

I had an early version of Plan 9 on a set of floppies courtesy of Dennis.
At that time it was pretty rough and would only install on the C: drive.
I had two drives and no room on my C: drive, so I couldn't get it installed.
Actually, let me correct that, I got it installed and it blew away what I
had on the C: drive...  That problem has since been fixed according to Dennis.

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