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operating system is part of Inferno's default distribution. Inferno can run as an application on top of other operating systems, allowing Inferno's port of acme to be used on most operating systems, including
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intends to make acme run as a standalone application on the host operating system.
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when he asked for a suitable name for a text editor that does "everything".
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command language. The design of the interface was influenced by
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Principles of Operating Systems: Design and Applications
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Index


Original author(s)
Rob Pike
Operating system
Plan 9
Inferno
Unix-like
Windows
Type
Text editor
License
MIT
GPL-2.0-only
LPL-1.02
acme.cat-v.org
text editor
shell
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
operating system
Rob Pike
Sam
Oberon
9P
user interface
mouse chording
mail
news reader
wikifs
Penn Jillette
Penn & Teller

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