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From: Christian Ambrose caa85@hom...
Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 Binaries and Source for Free
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:46:17 GMT

Bell Labs has released the source code for their Plan 9 operating system
for free download over the internet.  The development team for Plan 9
includes wizard hackers such as Dennis Ritchie, responsible for the C
programming language and some of UNIX, and Rob Pike, "The UNIX
Programming Environment" was co-authored by him and he is the project
leader.  The Slashdot post is available at
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/07/2259250.shtml , and the Bell Labs
pages are http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ and an article is
available at http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2000/june/7/2.html .
Christian
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I practice cook and release fishing.