On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 10:33 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Ethan Gardener <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 6:50 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> > Going by memory, assuming aux/vga ran, you should be able to type >> > 8-Alt-1-2 to type 8½ >> > You should also be able to start acme or sam instead of 8½. >> >> These will probably work, except acme hadn't been invented yet and sam may >> or may not give an error the first time. (Checked with another demo disk.) >> You probably do want to start the window system, there is no way to kill the >> foreground process without it. > > Acme (Alef version) is in 2ed; the single-floppy version doesn't seem to have > the binary. Looking at the screenshot that Will sent me directly, the dates > on the binaries match up to 2ed release.
I stand corrected. > I'm pretty sure the four-floppy set that came with the CDROM has the acme > binary. I don't have any floppy drives that I trust to look at my copy. I think I have images of those, could send them if desired. At least, the ones I have are described like this in the README: > The files in this directory recreate the four 1.44MB diskettes > used to load a limited version of Plan 9 onto a PC. It is intended > to let you try out Plan 9 before buying, in particular to see if > the system supports your PC hardware. They also contain fixes, perhaps over the iso? Anyway, if they contain iso9660, I imagine they're enough to get the iso installed. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tfc1bc1c6f9de7e59-Mb42ab4b7ee40bbf471c065a3 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
