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From: grantham grantham@ama...
Subject: plan 9 bof at usenix
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 20:01:47 -0400

> [...]Rob Pike preannounced
> that AT&T will be making Plan 9 available as an unsupported product in
> March or so.  When I think unsupported product, I think about the old
> toolchest stuff, but I get the idea that this may be slightly different.

For those of us who are implication-impaired (tm), does this mean that
it will be available to the general public a la Linux or Gnu software?
Did he only announce a new release or does this mean that us non-academic
Plan9-fan-wannabes be able to get a copy?

> Images of these floppies may be available on the net
> subsequent to the release.

Did he mean publicly?

		-Brad
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