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Reference
Pike, R., "8 1/2, the Plan 9 window system", Proceedings of the Summer 1991 USENIX Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, June 1991, USENIX Association, pp. 257-265. Google
abstract ;;Quote: the 8 1/2 windowing system treats all resources as multiplexed files; e.g., /dev/bitblt; X window functionality in 10,000 lines of code
259 ;;Quote: the 8 1/2 windowing system uses a full-duplex pipe for all I/O requests; a new window forks a process and mounts the pipe as /dev; a unique ID identifies the window's pipe
262 ;;Quote: the 8 1/2 windowing system is entirely synchronous; communicating co-routines for mouse, keyboard, and window clients; reads I/O pipe requests when coroutines are quiet
Topic: uniform representation of files and sequences (14 items)
Topic: windows for a UserInterface (21 items)
Topic: multi-processing for a user interface (14 items)
Topic: Unix pipes (10 items)
Topic: co-routines (13 items)
Topic: synchronized processing (35 items)