On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Steve Simon<st...@quintile.net> wrote: > As Anthony says it is very very old, but I might > be fun if you had the time on your hands. The 2nd edition > books/cdrom are nolonger available but you might find > a set seccond hand (abebooks.com etc). > > The floppys are here: > /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/ > > I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site > and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org.
Yes, you can find a mirror of the 2nd ed site at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/plan9.att.com/ And the floppy is available at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/plan9.att.com/pcdist/ but I have not tested it, if you do I would love to hear about it. Enjoy uriel > You will need 16Mb to install and 8Mb to run a terminal > though It will work at 640x480x1 resolution. > > The 4th edition should run on a 486, though you will need > (say) 128Mb of ram - much more if you want to recompile gs(1). > > -Steve > >
