> I do think that Plan9's de facto requirement for graphics-capable hardware is a bit weird in retrospect. Graphical workstations were always the desired end r

> I do think that Plan9's de facto requirement for graphics-capable hardware is a bit weird in retrospect. Graphical workstations were always the desired end result for decades since the mother of all demos. In the 90's GUI's were all the rage: Windows 95 removed the need for DOS and MacOS was already leading in this space. So it makes sense that plan 9 was designed to be graphics first.