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Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. Since 2000, Plan 9 has been free and open-source. The final official release was in early 2015. Under Plan 9, UNIX's ''everything is a file'' metaphor is extended via a pervasive network-centric filesystem, and the cursor-addressed, terminal-based I/O at the heart of UNIX-like operating systems is replaced by a windowing system and graphical user interface without cursor addressing, although rc, the Plan 9 shell, is text-based. The name ''Plan 9 from Bell Labs'' is a reference to the Ed Wood 1957 cult science fiction Z-movie ''Plan 9 from Outer Space''. The system continues to be used and developed by operating system researchers and hobbyists. History Plan 9 from Bell Labs was originally developed, starting in the late 1980s, by members of the Computing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée French
Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author, and exhibiting artist. Her work is characterized by her "obsessive-looking and highly unsettling visual style." Books Her work includes ''H Day'' (Picturebox), ''The Soap Lady'' (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum) (Top Shelf Productions), ''The Ticking'' (Top Shelf Productions), and ''Micrographica'' (Top Shelf Productions), ''Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits'' ( Sparkplug Books), and ''Marbles in My Underpants'' (Oni Press). She also has a weekly strip ''The Taint'' in the ''New York Press''. Her serialized comic ''Baby Bjornstrand'' appears on the Study Group Comic Books website. ''The New York Times'' said her graphic novels "split the difference between adorable and horrifically gross"; writing about "Baby Bjornstrand", they called it "equal parts Daffy Duck and Samuel Beckett, and all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
