Home › Entities › windowing_system › 8½

8½

windowing system for Plan 9
Place windowing_system Q4645516
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

8½

Summary

8½ is a windowing system[1]. 8½ draws 12 Wikipedia views per month (windowing_system category, ranking #7 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • 8½'s instance of is recorded as windowing system[3].
  • 8½'s followed by is recorded as rio[4].
  • 8½'s developer is recorded as Rob Pike[5].
  • 8½'s programmed in is recorded as Q15777[6].
  • 8½'s operating system is recorded as Plan 9[7].
  • +1989-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of 8½[8].
  • 8½'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04y74ps[9].
  • 8½'s described at URL is recorded as http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/812/[10].

Body

Designation and Status

8½'s instance of is recorded as windowing system[3].

History and Context

+1989-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of 8½[8].

Why It Matters

8½ draws 12 Wikipedia views per month (windowing_system category, ranking #7 of 8).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . doc.cat-v.org. Retrieved . doc.cat-v.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 8½. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/8--q4645516
MLA “8½.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/8--q4645516.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_8--q4645516_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{8½}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/8--q4645516}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): 8½ — https://4ort.xyz/entity/8--q4645516 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/8--q4645516 · Last refreshed: