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%%%%%%%%%% Pretitle %%%%%%%%%%
\title{%
Adventures in Trying the Inferno Operating System
The Inferno Adventures
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\date{}
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%%%%%%%%%% Posttitle %%%%%%%%%%
\title{%
Adventures in Trying the Inferno Operating System \\
\begin{center}\textit{Observations and Notes}\end{center}
The Infero Adventures\\
\begin{center}\textit{Inspecting the Inferno Operating System}\end{center}
\author{By Marvin Johanning}
}
\maketitle
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\vspace{8mm}\noindent\textbf{\underline{Copyright (C) 2020 Marvin Johanning.}}
\noindent© 2020 by Marvin Johanning\\``Adventures in Trying the Inferno Operating System'' by Marvin Johanning is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org\allowbreak/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0.
\noindent© 2020 by Marvin Johanning\\``The Inferno Adventures: Inspecting the Inferno Operating System'' by Marvin Johanning is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org\allowbreak/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0.
\vspace{20mm}\noindent\textsc{Publishing}: \\
Marvin Johanning\\
@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ But alas, as the passage of time has revealed, their efforts have been in vain;
Yet this is not a tale of Plan 9, it is one of its successor Inferno. Having learnt from their former mistakes with Plan 9, they strove to create a superior Plan 9; one that would be used in network environments; one that was portable and lightweight and could easily run on a myriad of different types of machine.
Yet tragically, even Inferno seems to have gone under — perhaps even into hell itself.
But fret not! While abandoned by Bell Labs long ago — what vile traitors they are! —, it has since been acquired by a British company, who have released the latest version in 2015, known as \textsc{Vita Nuova}. They, too, appear to have obtained the inspiration for their name from one of Dante's most magnificent works and seem to be those whom exclusive rights to the Inferno operating system have been granted — and, most surprisngly, they appear to aid in the development of Bell Lab's former OS, Plan 9, and are providing their services regarding the printing of Plan 9 manuals.
But fret not! While abandoned by Bell Labs long ago — what vile traitors they are! —, it has since been acquired by a British company, who have released the latest version in 2015, known as \textsc{Vita Nuova}; an Italian word, whose meaning is \textit{new life}. They, too, appear to have obtained the inspiration for their name from one of Dante's most magnificent works and seem to be those whom exclusive rights to the Inferno operating system have been granted — and, most surprisngly, they appear to aid in the development of Bell Lab's former OS, Plan 9, and are providing their services regarding the printing of Plan 9 manuals.
I believe, though, that the time has come to unveil this long forgotten gem. \newpage
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\chapter*{Further Reading}
\markboth{Further Reading}{Further Reading}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Further Reading}
I applaud you greatly if you have achieved reading this far and wish to learn even more about this most fascinating operating system. While there do appear to exist quite a number of different manuals, documents, documentation, tutorials tc., the majority of those seem to have been written quite a while ago; and whilst the Inferno community is yet to die — as you hopefully remember from the text itself —, it does not look as if a large amount of scripture is published on this subject.
Nevertheless, the documents that \textit{do} exist are of great quality and a large number therof have been written by the creators themselves.
A great book regarding programming with Limbo Phillip Stanley-Marbell's \textsc{Inferno Programming with Limbo} (ISBN 0 470 84352 7). In addition, the renowned Brian W. Kernighan has written a paper on the Limbo programming language titled \textsc{Descent into Limbo}, a copy whereof can be obtained from \textsc{Vita Nuova}'s website under the following link: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html. An archived copy thereof can be found on archive.is under the following URL: https://archive.is/wip/eQJ05.
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