* Posts by dboddie

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The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs

dboddie

Re: The way Bell Labs networking was going

The short answer is that it's done via files in /net/udp. Of course, you're going to use libraries to manage those interactions. See https://p9f.org/magic/man2html/3/ip for the low level details.

Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis

dboddie

Re: RISCiX

Talk to the folks in the stardot forums (http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/). We are interested in all sorts of Acorn history jottings.