From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 14:51:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11961 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:51:58 -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 OAA11953 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 14:51:56 -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 RAA16364; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:51:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05445; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:51:52 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:51:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: "Donald J. Maddox" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <329F6229.5F14@scsn.net> 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 Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Donald J. Maddox wrote: > 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... :-) The reply wasn't ambiguous. Here's the text of the reply: [begin included text] >From philw@plan9.bell-labs.com Fri Nov 29 17:48:43 1996 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:19:28 -0500 From: philw@plan9.bell-labs.com To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu the binary distribution on free on the web allows you to play with the system. In addition we are licensing source to Universities at no charge. A port to FreeBSD is planned. phil [end included text] Now I have to see how hard it is to get this stuff from the University of Maryland. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------