Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.