Plan 9 was the future that I didn't know I needed.
—@itsfoss
「 In the 1990s, Bell Labs carried an almost mythical reputation for me. I was a C programmer and Unix system administrator and the people at Bell Labs were the minds behind Unix and C, after all. When Plan9 was announced, it felt like the next big thing. Plan9 was an operating system that promised to rethink Unix, not just patch it up. The nerd in me couldn’t resist playing with it 」
I'm very impressed by the #Anvil editor. It's a #plan9 #acme lookalike with some extra toys like syntax highlighting.
I sometimes miss syntax highlighting in acme, so I'll play with it for a bit.
And by syntax highlighting all I want is the ability to display code, comments and primitive values like text in different colours. Mostly in the interest of spotting misclosed quotation marks more easily.
This morning in my news feed:
An article about #plan9 and apps git forge for it: https://shithub.us/
At 6am when you read that, what a name!
@itsfoss You can learn more about #Plan9 through regular boot camps sponsored by the #SDF Public Access #Unix System! https://9p.sdf.org
Lots of things out there say that Styx was "a variant of the 9P protocol", but I haven't found anything that says what was actually different about it.
- The `typ` values that specify the message type are different (9P1 values start counting at 50, Styx starts counting at 0)
- Tcwalk/Rcwalk have been removed
- There is no authentication (so Tsession/Rsession have been removed, and Tattach/Rattach have been shortened)
There you go.
It looks intriguing, but it would be nice to have some real life examples in the documentation above just `foo(bar)`.
Could it be developed in somehow parallel to #Plan9 plumbing? https://9p.io/sys/doc/plumb.html and https://mostlymaths.net/2013/04/just-as-mario-using-plan9-plumber.html/
To anyone who knows Plan9/9p, am I reading this correct that 9p does not support extended attributes?
@Literatopia #Plan9 hatte ich als #SciFi und #Fantasy Verlag so gar nicht auf dem Plan ️ . Danke für den Buch Tipp.
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"The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading.
Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.
Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt."