Appendix

Further Reading

I applaud you greatly if you have achieved reading this far and wish to learn even more about this most fascinating operating system. While there do appear to exist quite a number of different manuals, documents, documentation, tutorials etc., the majority of those seem to have been written quite a while ago; and whilst the Inferno community is yet to die — as you hopefully remember from the text itself —, it does not look as if a large amount of scripture is published on this subject.

Nevertheless, the documents that do exist are of great quality and a large number thereof have been written by the creators themselves.

A great book regarding programming with Limbo is Phillip Stanley-Marbell’s Inferno Programming with Limbo (ISBN 0 470 84352 7). In addition, the renowned Brian W. Kernighan has written a paper on the Limbo programming language titled Descent into Limbo, a copy whereof can be obtained from Vita Nuova’s website under the following link: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/
descent.html. An archived copy thereof can be found on archive.is under the following URL: https://archive.is/wip/eQJ05.

Additionally, as briefly mentioned at the beginning of the book, Vita Nuova print their own Plan 9 and Inferno manuals, both of which can be ordered on their website.

Another tremendous archive of documents regarding both Inferno and Plan 9 can be found on this website: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/