cat-v (mirror)

'The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.' — Gordon Bell

Projects hosted at cat-v.org

• 9P, A simple file protocol to build sane distributed systems.
• /sys/doc/, Documentation archive.
• Glenda's lair, The unofficial home of the Plan 9 Bunny.
• Plan 9 and Inferno, at the Google Summer of Code.
• cat -v, harmful stuff.
• International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno, unofficial hopmepage.
• NineTimes, Plan 9, Inferno, Unix and Bell Labs operating systems news.
• Software Repo, random bits of code.

See the update log for info on recent changes to some of this sites.

Documents of special interest

• UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful.
• utah2000: Systems Software Research is Irrelevant by Rob Pike.

'The Great Man ... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without respect and without the fear of "opinion"; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and "respectability", and altogether everything that is the "virtue of the herd". If he cannot lead, he goes alone. ... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar. ... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.'

— Friedrich Nietzche, The Will to Power