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Plan9

Plan9 OS, or what Unix should have been (originally by Bell Labs from where Unix came). It's open source.

It got everything right as for proposing a uniform system interface (the dynamic, per-process name->channel "file system" thing) but is still wrong by using a low-level programming language with coarse-grained system abstractions.

See its successor, Inferno.

• The home page.
• The FAQ.
• Acme: A User Interface for Programmers, its TUI.
• Plumbing and Other Utilities, "Inter-process communication (IPC) that enlivens the interactive user interface".
• A comp.os.plan9 collection.

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