Rob Pike, ##8, the Plan 9 Window System##, USENIX Summer Conf. Proc., Nashville, June, 1991, pp. 257-265, reprinted in this volume.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....that follow illustrate these ideas in action. The Command level View Plan 9 is meant to be used from a machine with a screen running the window system. It has no notion of #teletype# in the UNIX sense. The keyboard handling of the bare system is rudimentary, but once the window system, 8 [Pike91], is running, text can be edited with #cut and paste# operations from a pop up menu, copied between windows, and so on. 8 permits editing text from the past, not just on the current input line. The text editing capabilities of 8 are strong enough to displace special features such as history in ....

....is provided by the kernel, a user process, or a remote server is irrelevant to the way it is used. There are dozens of such servers; in this section we present three representative ones. Perhaps the most remarkable file server in Plan 9 is 8, the window system. It is discussed at length elsewhere [Pike91], but deserves a brief explanation here. 8 provides two interfaces: to the user seated at the terminal, it offers a traditional style of interaction with multiple windows, each running an application, all controlled by a mouse and keyboard. To the client programs, the view is also fairly ....

Rob Pike, ##8, the Plan 9 Window System##, USENIX Summer Conf. Proc., Nashville, June, 1991, pp. 257-265, reprinted in this volume.

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