From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 13:45:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08444 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 13:45:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA08429 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 13:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem.eng.umd.edu (modem.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.187]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA15371; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:45:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04776; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:44:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:44:58 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: Darren Davis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Darren Davis wrote: > I was checking out the Inferno Web page http://inferno.lucent.com. For > those who are not familiar with this, it is a distributed OS/platform > similar in concept to Java being developed at Bell Labs by the team that > developed Plan 9. Well, I saw that it was available for several Unix > platforms as well as that Windows trash. FreeBSD was not listed as one > of the supported platforms. So I decided to take the oportunity to use > their suggestion link and put in the suggestion that they do a FreeBSD > port. Well, I got a response back from Phil Winterbottom (One of Bell > Labs finest) stating that I was the first to make this request, and if > there was enough interest in a FreeBSD port that they would do one. > Well, are WE interested? If so, use their suggestion box and lets get a > FreeBSD port of Inferno. I checked out the web page, it looked interesting, so I sent a polite message asking for a FreeBSD port. I got a quick reply saying that one is indeed planned. > > > Thanks, > > > Darren > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------