From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 14:22:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11007 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rosie.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11002 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhiannon.scsn.net (cola121.scsn.net [206.25.247.121]) by rosie.scsn.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-13529) with SMTP id AAA135; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:21:14 -0500 Message-ID: <329F6229.5F14@scsn.net> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:22:33 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey CC: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote: > > 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. That's interesting... I inquired about this several days ago and got a quick reply saying that one was _not_ planned, as there seemed to be little demand. Maybe your request tipped the scales... :-)