Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:22:33 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <329F6229.5F14@scsn.net> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961129164242.4428B-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>
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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... :-)
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