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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 12, 2026 7 min read

Plan 9 from Bell Labs: Per-Process Namespaces and 9P Resources

Trace Plan 9's per-process namespaces from Bell Labs research into mount, bind, union directories, and 9P, without conflating design with Unix containers.

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Tech HistoryHistory August 27, 2026 6 min read

UTF-8: The Plan 9 Design That Made Unicode Fit Existing Systems

How Ken Thompson and Rob Pike shaped UTF-8 in 1992, why self-synchronizing bytes mattered, and how later standards narrowed it to today's secure form.

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