This continuation preserves the operating system’s manuals, papers, source, and downloads—not just a page describing it. Plan 9’s distributed-computing ideas are easier to understand when the original project environment remains browsable. The institution’s host went away; the technical culture and its documents found another home.
Original distribution site: http://9p.io/plan9/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-9p-io-kept-plan-9-from-bell-labs-downloadable/
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Original distribution site: http://9p.io/plan9/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-9p-io-kept-plan-9-from-bell-labs-downloadable/
#ancientweb #plan9 #operatingsystems #softwarepreservation
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