Plan 9 Distribution

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Contents

The Plan 9 distribution consists of two books, four 1.4 megabyte
floppies, and a CD-ROM. The books contain the manual pages and a
collection of papers describing the system. Click on the cover art to
delve into the contents.

The four floppies contain a complete bootable Plan 9 system for
IBM-compatible PCs (>=386). They have the kernel, the window system,
Internet support, and programming environments for both the C and Alef
languages. The CD-ROM contains everything: kernels, libraries, and
utilities for the Intel 386 (including 486 and Pentium), Sparc, 68020,
and Mips architectures and the sources to create them. It also has a
selection of interesting stuff (road maps of the US, sky catalogs).
Click on the CD-ROM art for a list of files on the CD-ROM; it's big.

To find out whether Plan 9 supports your hardware, read The Various
Ports.

To Order

The distribution is published by Harcourt Brace and Company. To order
it from the US call

800 782 4479
From Canada and the Caribbean, call

800 841 9938
Elsewhere, use

+1 407 345 3800
The cost for the full kit is US$350 plus shipping; the ISBN is
0-03-017143-1. The manuals can be ordered by themselves for US$125
plus shipping; ISBN is 0-03-017142-3. Everyone, even AT&T employees,
must order the system this way. There are no special arrangements or
deals.

Read the shrinkwrap license to determine whether its terms are
acceptable to you. The major restriction is that you can't sell
products or services based on the supplied software. However, AT&T
Software Solutions Group will negotiate commercial licenses (telephone
800 462 8146 or 1 415 943 4076).

Free Trial

Plan 9 does not purport to run on all PCs. Since Plan 9 does not use
the BIOS, it is sensitive to hardware differences between PCs.
Therefore, we will provide the contents of the four floppies on the
Internet via FTP for you to try out. Ftp to plan9.att.com, log in as
anonymous, and get the files from /plan9/pcdist.

The document Installing the Plan 9 Distribution explains how to get
going.

Errata

Click here for problems and fixes found since the distribution was
frozen. Look here before installing.

Copyright © 1995 AT&T. All rights reserved.