On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 08:13:59AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I would like to announce a project I've been working on for quite some time > now to the > plan 9 community: Principia Softwarica. > Here is the main website:??https://principia-softwarica.org/ > Principia is essentially a series of books explaining the code of Plan 9, but > not just the kernel, > the whole Plan 9 operating system (windowing system rio, the toolchain, the > rc shell, the debugger, etc.). > I am using the Literate programming technique invented by Donald Knuth to > explain the code (more details on > my website above).
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