Subj : My Retro Computing
To   : tenser
From : Oli
Date : Tue Aug 17 2021 11:56:51

tenser wrote (2021-08-10):

 Ol>> I tried a Plan 9 image for the Raspberry. It booted, but then I had
 Ol>> no idea how to proceed. I found another Plan 9 image, but haven't
 Ol>> tried it yet.

 t> Plan 9 was built as a programmer's system; the idea was that,
 t> instead of a network of loosely federated Unix systems, you'd
 t> build a more tightly coupled Unix from a network of machines.
 t> There's not a lot to do with it unless you're a C programmer.

 t> That said, Richard's Raspberry Pi image is definitely the
 t> way to go with respect to playing around with it.

Richard's image boots fine with some help text and terminal window. Now I have to figure out what to do with it (and go through some old boxes, maybe I find a three button mouse) ;).

Maybe trying Lua ...

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