[mdlug] Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Jacob Todd]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:55:24PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> I've played with it.  In fact, it was used in some Systems classes for
> teaching OS-level coding.  It's got some really neat ideas, I knew a
> professor who referred to it as "...like unix, only more so."
> 
> I had also used Inferno, which came from plan9, which I just
> discovered is now Open Source: 
> http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/
Yeah, I've been looking at inferno too. I just need more time, school +
work has taken up a lot of it lately.
 
> Also, I really liked 'acme', the text editor/user interface. 
There's Plan 9 from User Space[1], which implements acme on other *nix systems.

[1]http://swtch.com/plan9port/
-- 
Jake Todd
// If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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