I've never heard of it. -rob On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 8:16 PM Rodrigo G. López <rodrigosloop(a)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

I looked at the source. I still have no memory of it existing, but stylistically it's almost certainly code written by Phil Winterbottom. -rob On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 2:26 AM Rodrigo G. López <rodrigosloop(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > maybe it was developed outside of the labs then. > > > -rodri > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 12:56 PM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've never heard of it. > > > > -rob > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 8:16 PM Rodrigo G. López <rodrigosloop(a)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

On 31 Aug 2024, at 20:09, Angel M Alganza <ama(a)ugr.es> wrote: On 2024-08-31 11:59, Rodrigo G. López wrote: > i'd love to know if any of you remembers this, and if so, would you share the story behind it?

I think Y was included in PicoBSD, the one 1.44MB 3.5" floppy version of FreeBSD. I must have a couple of floppies with it on them somewhere. Need to look for them now and give them a try. :-) Cheers, Ángel

I think Y was included in PicoBSD, the one 1.44MB 3.5" floppy version of FreeBSD. I must have a couple of floppies with it on them somewhere. Need to look for them now and give them a try. :-)

I think Y was included in PicoBSD, the one 1.44MB 3.5" floppy version of FreeBSD. I must have a couple of floppies with it on them somewhere. Need to look for them now and give them a try. :-)