[TUHS] the Y window system

[Rob Pike]

I've never heard of it.

-rob


On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 8:16 PM Rodrigo G. López <rodrigosloop at 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
>
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