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caerwyn.com

From 2004 caerwyn.com focused on operating systems from Bell Labs, especially the philosophy of Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno OS, by hosting a blog of experiments using the Inferno OS, called the Inferno Programmer’s Notebook. Since 2022 I have started working on Inferno OS again, porting it to the Raspberry Pi Pico. Check out the repositories below.

Blog

• Inferno Programmer’s Notebook
• Archimedes Programmer’s Notebook
• Medium Essays A few essays on AI.

Repositories

• Inferno Lab. Source code for all the prototype software made in the Inferno operating system over a number of years. Much of it is written in the Limbo programming language, a precursor to Go. It had excellent support for communicating sequential processes much like Go.
• Acme SAC. The Acme editor was developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system. It was ported to Inferno OS by VitaNuova. Made into a “standalone” editor for Windows and other operating systems by packaging and customizing the editor and Inferno OS. The original Acme editor is part of Plan 9 from user space port to Unix like systems and I recommend you use that version.
• Docker Images. Docker images for Inferno and Acme-SAC.
• Inferno OS on Raspberry Pi Pico. Inferno OS ported to the Raspberry Pi Pico using the GCC toolchain and PICO SDK.