PDP 11/73 on the Internet

[John Floren]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:25 PM, John Floren wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice to see just about any OS that wasn't basically POSIX,
>>>> or
>>>> DOS/Windows running native on a PC.
>>>
>>>  ColorForth!!
>>>
>> Plan 9! We don't pretend to follow POSIX, we just had Thompson and
>> Kernighan do what they wanted. ;)
>
>  I would love to play with Plan 9 again.  Has it been under active
> development?
>
>          -Dave
>

Oh yeah, it's still being developed.
My job is writing Plan 9 kernel code at a national lab.
I'd say grab a basic PC, burn the CD, and go at it! Just read the
9fans mailing list archives *before* posting questions there ;)

John
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