The Super Dimensional Fortress / SDF.org has PLAN 9 available as a Virtual
Private Server for a monthly fee.
Contact "smj" { at } s d f dot org.
Or visit the SDF Tutorials page.
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Justin W Elam
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On Dec 1, 2012 1:53 PM, "Mark J. Bailey" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For grins, earlier this fall I wasted a little time once trying to get a
> VirtualBox Plan9:
>
> http://virtualboxes.org/images/plan-9/
>
> but did not get it going, but didn't really waste any more time on it
> either since.
>
> I recall it vaguely from back in the day when it was still "new". A
> college buddy of mine had it loaded up on something he had cobbled
> together (non-Intel), and it reminded me of the early Macintoshes. Back
> then, anything so GUI like that was really something special.
>
> Hard to believe it's coming up on 30 years ago now! :)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Jack Coats
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 1:39 PM
> To: NLUG; Patrick Becker; Steve Ghertner
> Subject: [nlug] For those intersted in RaspberryPi
>
> Hackaday just had a posting about a Plan9 port to the Pi.
>
> Plan9 (name taken from the cult movie "Plan9 from Outer Space") was
> described as 'more Unix than Unix' back in the day.
> It has and allows multiple 'display stations', storage computers, compute
> computers, etc. Quite interesting really.
> And yes, it was really used at Bell Labs by everyone from secretarial
> pool, bosses, everyone.
>
> ><> ... Jack
> Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you
> are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate"
> - Henry J. Tillman
> "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." -
> Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead
> people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN
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