"Unavailable on the console" is kind of a cheap shot when talking about
an operating system that deliberately doesn't support consoles. Part of
the point was outgrowing TTYs.
Yeah, I guess I should've started with that :) I love Unix for the
console.
But in Plan9, the console is assumed to be a bitmap device. Perhaps
with the exception of, say, the file server. But there is no reason
why that has to be the case - certainly not on modern "file server"
hardware. It's just an artifact of how cpurc is set up. It's
trivially changable, should you desire to.
--lyndon