On Sep 28, 1:30Â am, [email protected] (Steve Simon) wrote: > the iso on the bell labs site is built nightly so if you have that you have > the > up-to-date source. > > I wouldn't expect there will be a fifth edition as most of the plan9 team > from bell > labs now work at google. Having said this it might happen, it depends on the > priorities inside lucent-alcatel. > > you call update from a mounted iso image if you have no network but > i cannot remember the exact runes, maybe the 9fans archives will help? > > the third edition is not very interesting, it is very similar to the fourth > but has a different 9p protocol (and a few other things). > > the seccond was purchased like a book for $270 (from memory), the cdroms do > appear > (with license card one hopes) on ebay from time to time. I archived the > four distribution floppies of the binary only "demo" release for posterity. > > the first edition was given to universities who expressed an interest, > like Unix was in its early days. the license for ed1 was restrictive so > these cdroms don't appear - some people might still have the single demo > floppy > that Rob gave out in london but thats your only hope. > > I put some historic papers and distribution images (copyright permitting) > onhttp://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/historic, and I believe > uriel > has more onhttp://www.cat-v.org > > -Steve
Steve, would you be willing to share copies of the demo discs? Which architecture do they use? I just want to play with something ancient as well as modern, then I'll feel like I have a better feel for the system. Thanks.
