9P The Simple Distributed File System from Bell Labs. A sane distributed file system. 9P is a network protocol developed at Bell Labs. For the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of accessing and manipulating resources and applications transparently in a distributed environment. For 9P, Plan 9 and Inferno news and articles.

The Acme User Interface for Programmers. Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike. Originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms. And later rewritten in C using libthread. Plan 9 from User Space.

Archeology Lost mementos from another age.

Essential Books for Readers with Good Taste. Some are very old and hard to find, this collection is for convenience and reference. So, while not endorsing intellectual property.

Cat-vorg Random Contrarian Insurgent Organization. The Internet is not for sissies. A simple file protocol to build sane distributed systems. The user interface for programmers by Rob Pike. From various operating systems and other sources. The unofficial home of the Plan 9 Bunny. A proposed standard that simplifies the complexities of the http protocol. International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno. A collection of man pages for Plan 9 and related systems.

Tired of having trouble finding some of my favorite papers and documents, I decided to organize the best publicly available documents in a library that also includes versions in multiple formats. Most material so far is related to computer science, but I plan to cover other fields eventually. This is rather outdated, see the sitemap.

Here you can find the fortune files. Fortunes file includes the contents of Bell Labs. There seem to be some overlap between the OpenBSD and the FreeBSD fortunes files. Service to pick a random fortune.