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Found a nice project today, a #Rust implementation of #Plan9's rc shell. It is far for complete but can lex all the rc scripts from #9front

https://git.sr.ht/~alip/rustrc

If you place a reservation for a Model 3 or MODEL4 #cyberdeck during #hope26, I’ll donate 10% of the full price ($55 or $44) to the EFF (@eff). You can place the order through the website, but if you’re really cool, you’ll use the #gopher e-commerce ( #gophercommerce ) store. ;)

http://frstcomputer.com
gopher://frstcomputer.com

#hope26 #gopher #cyberdeck #plan9 #zephyr #epaper #eink

Live bits from the #9front & #plan9 UNIX Social Camp!

Got the latest 9front release running on my X200 this afternoon. Plan for the evening is either (a) watching Season 2 of 24 with my wife, or (b) getting the WiFi going on the X200 if she's asleep 🤣

#9front #plan9

This weekend, the UNIX Social Club is throwing a #9front install party: ride 9p or let it be! #plan9 #uap

@hazematman If you're looking *without* the modern web, I'd recommend Plan 9. https://9front.org/. It should run quite well on your older hardware (modulo drivers - 9front maintains a good list).
Whether it's right for you will depend on what exact tasks you need to run on your daily driver.
#plan9os #plan9 #9front

bitch i feel like rob pike

#9front #plan9

@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!

By looking at the current #FOSS news, I think more in favor of #Plan9 and #9front. I'm far from anti-AI (whatever that means), but I'm against all con artists and the current companies pushing their LLMs are con artists.

Cirno and large Glenda

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

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #plan9 #9front

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

I wonder in what state is #Zig on #Plan9? Is it usable enough or it's a bit rot.

In the tiny world of #ARM (and many other) #microcontrollers, everything is an "address": in-CPU status and control registers, on- and off-chip peripheral data and control registers, I/O ports, and other hardware bits are accessed via a memory map. While this address abstraction is a refined software view of the raw hardware, it is still a pointer-level view of the world, the lowest of programming abstractions.

As MCUs grow in power and the software that run on them grow in size, higher level abstractions become necessary. Indeed, most software on MCUs are now implemented in C and other higher-level languages, with assembly confined to small portions of libraries and RTOSs.

In the #UNIX world, everything is a "file". This elegant, uniform expression reached its zenith in #Plan9, the grownup UNIX. I believe the file abstraction offers numerous benefits to modern MCU #programming.

nice marmot

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