Tag Archives: Plan 9

Arnold Robbins Issue #12, April 1995 This month’s column concludes the article on Plan 9 From Bell Labs, and those parts of it that have been re-implemented in freely available software. Last month we described the origins of Plan 9, the sam editor, and the 9term terminal emulator. Well, what about the shell to run inside the window? Here too, ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #11, March 1995 In this two-part article, Arnold shows us how small is beautiful when it comes to user interfaces. This column briefly describes Plan 9 From Bell Labs, an operating system done by the original group at Bell Labs that did Unix. We will be focusing on the user interface part of Plan 9. It is ...