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Re:A native graphical shell for SSH by lstodd on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:28PM (#48726174)
yea, as sibling said. p9 was not possible on pdp11. what was possible there was .. v7 and 2bsd. see https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix

p9 was done when "current state of unix" was already fixed in form of aix, sysv and bsds, it suffered the same fate as say beos.

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Re:A native graphical shell for SSH by fulafel on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:54AM (#48728616)
BeOS was marketed, there was an attempt. But it was a harder sell. Plan 9 on the other hand was was kept as a research project only and was restrictively licensed in the 90s when it was actively developed.
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