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Plan 9 may not be dead yet.
This news is about two months old, but I just found it digging through The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02..._to_gnu_space/
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You're right about the lean architecture. Executables were small, even with static linking. Not sure what-all tricks were used to accomplish that, except that much ado was made of the Plan 9 compiler. The compiler could be targeted to other architectures (ARM, etc). The compiler was new for Plan 9 and used its own specific dialect of C. Here's an interesting link that summarizes the compiler: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html It was a really interesting project, if only someone would take the initiative to update drivers and such... Last edited by censored; 2nd May 2014 at 12:11 PM. |
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Plan 9 ... Inferno
I stopped being lazy and checked the wiki. Inferno was created by Bell Labs, and "based on" the experience gained from the Plan 9 development. Then after three years Inferno was sold to VitNuova, who themselves sold it for awhile as a commercial product. Some years later it was released under the GPL, but the last update of the OS (according to Wikipedia) was over four years ago. Inferno seems to be going the way of the original Plan 9.
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Are you using the system and for what purpose?
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I think this re-licensing had something to do with Akaros.
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I recall that a slimmed down Tex distribution was ported to Plan 9. And you have troff of course. By word processing, do you mean the goofy cartoonish looking programs like libreoffice or MS word, or do include the more enjoyable ways to create a document too?
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It was something I read in their documentation a while back. In their words, the system did not yet have a word processor. Whether that means no word processing at all, or no advanded printing utilities, or something else, I do not know. I just spent some time at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ trying to find the reference, but did not see it. It was one of the items in a short to do list. I might go through the introductory documentation again some day, so I can post that information. If I can find it again.
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I thought It's a good Idea to post It here.
Searching for some notes about Plan B in LSUB; I found documents related to Second International Workshop on Plan 9, that took place in Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ, US, on the 3rd and 4th of December, 2007. LSUB also provide video presentations to these meeting, beside Francisco Ballesteros [e.g. Notes on the Plan 9 3rd edition Kernel source] and several others that I recognize from books and other documents; Dennis M. Ritchie was giving a speech about: Unix and Beyond: Themes in Operating System Research. Download index - IWP9-Ritchie.mov - time: 56:60 |
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