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Inferno Fourth Edition Papers and Documentation

Here are the papers and other documentation included with the latest version of Inferno 4th Edition.

• The Limbo language
  • A Descent into Limbo by Brian W. Kernighan
  • The Limbo Programming Language by Dennis M. Ritchie
  • Addendum

• Reliable Benchmarking with Limbo on Inferno
• Limbo profilers in Inferno
• Program Development under Inferno
• The Dis Virtual Machine:
  • The design of the Inferno virtual machine
  • Dis Virtual Machine Specification

• The Inferno Operating System
• Inferno Ports: Hosted and Native
• The Inferno Shell
• Native Kernel Debugging with Acid
• An Overview of Limbo/Tk
• Navigating Large XML Documents on Small Devices
• Real Inferno
• Styx-on-a(lego)Brick
• The Styx Architecture for Distributed Systems

Release notes

• System and Interface Changes to Inferno
• Installing the Vita Nuova grid software
• Installing the Inferno Software
• Inferno 3rd Edition - June 2001 Revision
• Inferno 3rd Edition - 3 October 2001 Update
• Inferno 3rd Edition - 28 June 2002 Update
• Inferno 3rd Edition - 15 July 2002 Experimental Update

[Note: the contents of this area are still being organized, please be patient.]