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    Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT...
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  • Antarctica Inferno Ridge, Antarctica Inferno (horse), a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse Inferno (operating system), a distributed operating system started...
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  • Limbo (programming language) (category Inferno (operating system))
    language for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write applications for the Inferno operating system. It was designed at Bell Labs by...
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    Acme (text editor) (category Inferno (operating system))
    to the Inferno operating system is part of Inferno's default distribution. Inferno can run as an application on top of other operating systems, allowing...
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  • Time-Sharing System v8 UNIX Time-Sharing System v9 UNIX Time-Sharing System v10 Non-Unix Operating Systems: BESYS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Inferno Burroughs...
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  • Chmod (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, chmod is the command and system call used to change the access permissions and the special mode flags (the setuid...
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    Singularity is an experimental operating system developed by Microsoft Research between July 9, 2003, and February 7, 2015. It was designed as a high dependability...
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  • 9P (protocol) (category Inferno (operating system))
    authentication files. The latest version of the Inferno operating system also uses 9P2000. The Inferno file protocol was originally called Styx, but technically...
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    Rob Pike (category Inferno (operating system) people)
    graphical terminal for Unix, the Inferno operating system, and the Limbo programming language. Pike also developed lesser systems such as the Newsqueak concurrent...
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    Ken Thompson (category Inferno (operating system) people)
    pages in 2019. In the 1990s, work began on the Inferno operating system, another research operating system that was based around a portable virtual machine...
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    Passwd (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password. The password entered by the user...
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    Wc (Unix) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of computer...
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  • M4 (computer language) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    language, derived from OpenSolaris. M4 has been included in the Inferno operating system. This implementation is more closely related to the original m4...
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  • Touch (command) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    ported to the IBM i operating system. System time List of Unix commands "FLEX 9.0 User's Manual" (PDF). "AROS Research Operating System". aros.sourceforge...
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    Tr (Unix) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation...
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  • Env (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    env is a shell command for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to either print a list of environment variables or run another utility in...
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    Cd (command) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    directory in various operating systems. It can be used in shell scripts and batch files. The command has been implemented in operating systems such as Unix,...
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    established other operating systems had become. By early 1996, the Plan 9 project had been "put on the back burner" by AT&T in favor of Inferno, intended to...
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  • computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. 1951...
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  • Ar (Unix) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    positions in part 2. Some System V systems do not use the format described above for the symbol lookup table. For operating systems such as HP-UX 11.0, this...
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    Ls (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    command to list computer files and directories in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is specified by POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. It is...
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  • Yacc (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system developed by Stephen C. Johnson. It is a lookahead left-to-right rightmost...
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    Dennis Ritchie (category Inferno (operating system) people)
    governments. Ritchie was also involved with the development of the operating systems Plan 9 and Inferno, and the programming language Limbo. As part of an AT&T restructuring...
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    Mkdir (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    the Unix, DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems is used to make a new directory. It is also available in the EFI shell...
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  • Runas (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    /user:administrator /savecred "shutdown /i" The command is also included in the Inferno operating system. runas writes the user to /dev/user and invokes cmd with the given...
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    Charon (web browser) (category Inferno (operating system))
    Inferno operating system. It had a limited support for JavaScript but none for CSS. It was originally written by Howard Trickey in Limbo for Inferno....
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  • Echo (command) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    are passed to it as arguments. It is a command available in various operating system shells and typically used in shell scripts and batch files to output...
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    Pwd (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    In Unix-like and some other operating systems, the pwd command (print working directory) writes the full pathname of the current working directory to...
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  • Grep (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later available for all Unix-like systems and some others such as OS-9. Before it was...
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    Rm (Unix) (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic links from file systems and also special files...
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