maybe it was developed outside of the labs then.


-rodri

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 12:56 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've never heard of it.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 8:16 PM Rodrigo G. López <rodrigosloop@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hello everyone,
>>
>> i recently came across a little window manager, written in Alef, that
>> i've had in my /tmp folder
>> for the last five years. it's called Y (probably as a response to X),
>> and i grabbed it from
>> 9gridchan's public griddisk; run by the late mycroftiv until 2022.
>>
>> i think it must've been an experimental project by Pike, Rosenthal or
>> Tom Duff, but i can't find
>> any documentation about it anywhere. i'd love to know if any of you
>> remembers this, and if so,
>> would you share the story behind it?
>>
>> i uploaded the source code here: http://antares-labs.eu/isometric/Y.tgz
>>
>> and it runs on 2nd ed plan 9 without issue (see the attached screenshot.)
>>
>>
>> cheers!
>>
>> -rodri