@tripplehelix

I am continually amazed by Unicode.

I remember having to use custom software just to read/write Arabic text in the early 90s. And it's not like that software enabled the OS to do so, it let you read and write Arabic in that application, only. It was a standalone Arabic text word processor.

I think it was called Al Katib, but I can't find anything on it online. It was for the Mac.

Even in the early-mid 2000s, I remember seeing a friend's Windows XP machine with Japanese internationalization. Pretty sure it used something like Shift-JS, because the \ character always showed up as a Japanese character. ;)

And by some miracle, we have this text system with literally millions of code points (if I'm using that term correctly), and yet it looks just like normal 7-bit ASCII most of the time (thanks to the #Plan9 devs).

Amaze! Amaze!

Cirno and large Glenda

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/182153619

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #plan9 #9front

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Cirno and large Glenda

I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)

The penultimate paper on paint(1) and the 9front art machine.

https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber

#unix_surrealism #plan9 #9front #art #guide #computers #oldcomputerchallenge

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poster for "I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)" there's some characters or something, I can't tell

nice marmot

#unix_surrealism #cirno #9front #plan9 #glenda #art #mastoart #fediart

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cirno holding glenda

@prahou

#plan9 is the grownup #unix

@AmenZwa

#UNIX is not just an OS; it is the ultimate #IDE for #programmers. Arguably the best written introductory book on UNIX programming is "The UNIX Programming Environment", Kernighan (1983). This book covers UNIX V7, but I used it with 4.2BSD.

There is another jewel of a book of a similar kind, a free one to boot, by Prof. Ballesteros (King Juan Carlos University): "Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" (2007). Prof. Ballesteros wrote this book to teach his CS students the fundamentals of good OS design.

Although almost no one uses #Plan9 today, it is alive and kicking. It even runs on Raspberry Pi. Anyone interested in OSs and likes the philosophical underpinnings of UNIX should take a look at Plan 9.

The other must-read book is his "Notes on the Plan 9 3ed Kernel Source" (2007).

Prof. Ballesteros has many Plan 9 related publications in PDF format.

https://lsub.org/books-papers/

PS—Those with a historical bent should also read Organick's "The Multics System: An Examination of Its Structure" (1980). Multix is the mother of UNIX, and Plan 9 is the grown-up UNIX.

Doot do doooooot

got encrypted PDFs opening on plan9 :)

maybe now that I can read the PDF specification I can use it to get better font renderings :P

#plan9

Bell Labs Aeronautics

#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #plan9 #ai #space #glenda

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EARTH 48 MONTHS LATER A CAPSULE LANDS IN THE DESERT ASTRONAUT CLIMBS OUT THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY COMPUTERS what the fuck

SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/

It's not a *NIX!

"skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas, different contracts."

Problem: the GPL is poison. It has polluted Linux and the Linux userland software so that only large corporations can afford to monetize it. BSD License or MIT License would be much better allowing small players to produce unique work without then being forced to share their source code with the AI hegemony racket.

#SkiftOS #Tech #Linux #OS #Plan9 #Haiku #Fuchsia #Computing #SoftwareFreedom #AIHegemony #GPL #License #BSD #MIT