"Plan 9 is an operating system kernel but also a collection of accompanying software."
— Webpage pointed out by the late Dennis Ritchie,
father of the programming language C
and co-developer of Unix, who reportedly died on October 8.
From Ritchie's own home page—
"A brief biography, in first person instead of obituary style."
From that biography—
"Today, as a manager of a small group of researchers, I promote exploration of distributed operating systems, languages, and routing/switching hardware. The recent accomplishments of this group include the Plan 9 operating system…."
Another operating system is that of Alfred Bester.
My laptop now includes his classic The Stars My Destination ,
downloaded this morning…
Not much compared to Widener Library (see this morning's Lost Cornerstone),
but sufficient for present purposes…
"Simple jaunt." — "The Comedian as the Letter C"
See also Plan 9 from Outer Space in this journal.