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9vx 9vx- A port of the Plan 9 kernel to run as a user space program using the vx32 sandboxing library in *BSD, Linux, and OS X systems. International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno Unofficial Homepage International Workshops for Plan 9 and Inferno Unofficial Homepage- Information about the Plan 9 and Inferno workshops, including proceedings, video and audio recordings, and othe… C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs- An introduction to writing C programs in the Plan 9 environment by Pietro Gagliardi. Upas - A Simpler Approach to Metwork Mail Upas - A Simpler Approach to Metwork Mail- Essay on the mail interface system by David L. Presotto. Available in PDF and PostScript format. Plan 9 and Inferno at the Google Summer of Code Plan 9 and Inferno at the Google Summer of Code- News, blogs, source code repositories and other resources for the Plan 9 and Inferno projects part of GSoC. NineTimes NineTimes- News, tips and articles about Plan 9 and Inferno. Plan 9 2nd Edition ReadMe by Brian W. Kernighan Plan 9 2nd Edition ReadMe by Brian W. Kernighan- General introduction to the system. Plan 9 at the Advanced Computing Laboratory Plan 9 at the Advanced Computing Laboratory- Documentation, tips, various software packages including ports of Unix software, and extra drivers for 3rd Edition. Plan 9 from User Space Plan 9 from User Space- A port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems. Second International Workshop on Plan 9 Second International Workshop on Plan 9- A workshop for researchers and developers working on Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Inferno, and related ideas and projects. IWP9 2006 IWP9 2006- First International Workshop for Plan 9 and Inferno. Plan 9: The Way the Future Was Plan 9: The Way the Future Was- Essay compares Plan 9 to Unix, parts of Plan 9 being implemented in Unix. From Eric S. Raymond's book The Art of Unix Programming. Plan 9 from Bell Labs Plan 9 from Bell Labs- Wikipedia article about Plan 9. Encompass Australia Encompass Australia- National chapter of Encompass, the Digital/Compaq users society. DECUS Ireland DECUS Ireland- National chapter of DECUS, the Digital/Compaq users society. DFSORT/MVS DFSORT/MVS- IBM home page for Data Facility Sort (DFSORT). Includes links to product details, publications, support and downloads. DFSORT is sort/merge software with utility capab… IMS IMS- IBM home page for Information Management System (IMS). Information on the family of software with links to a library, success stories, news, events, education, services and s… DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 DB2 for z/OS and OS/390- IBM home page for Database 2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB). Information on associated products and links to features and benefits, system requirements, lib… z/OS Security z/OS Security- IBM security features with and products for z/OS. z/OS Hot Topics Newsletters z/OS Hot Topics Newsletters- Published twice annually by IBM for z/OS Systems Programmers, with one to five page technical articles. Available on-line in PDF format. z/OS z/OS- IBM home page for zSeries/Operating System (z/OS). Information on the latest version with links to an overview, recent announcements, software, migration and installation, n… IBM z/OS Consolidated Service Test (CST) and the Recommended Service Upgrade (RSU) IBM z/OS Consolidated Service Test (CST) and the Recommended Service Upgrade (RSU)- Integrated testing of an older Program Update Tape (PUT) level with hipers and PE's from a more… UNIX System Services UNIX System Services- IBM resources for the full UNIX implementation built into z/OS. SMP/E: System Modification Program Extended SMP/E: System Modification Program Extended- The software used to install and maintain z/OS software from IBM and many other software companies. RACF RACF- IBM home page for Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) security software. Introduction with links to a technical overview, news, downloads, user groups, past and future p… SDSF: System Display and Search Facility SDSF: System Display and Search Facility- IBM software to view and control the JES2 queues, running batch jobs, started tasks, and on-line TSO users. RMF: Resource Management Facility RMF: Resource Management Facility- IBM's performance measurement and management software. LE: Language Environment LE: Language Environment- The IBM common run-time environment for popular programming languages. Wikipedia OS/360 Encyclopedia Entry Wikipedia OS/360 Encyclopedia Entry- Short article with many embedded links describing Operating System/360 (OS/360), the original ancestor of z/OS that was written as the operati… UnXMIT Information Exchange UnXMIT Information Exchange- Details on how to write a program for operating systems other than z/OS that will read a z/OS Partitioned DataSet (PDS, also known as a Library) that …