Is there some fun way to take Plan 9 out for a spin on a macos system ? Or its designated successor, Inferno ?
9Front runs fine under VirtualBox -- just be sure to pre-allocate the whole virtual hard disk. (You only need a tiny one.) If you use sparse allocation, formatting fails.
Yes—go to https://copy.sh/v86/ and click on the 9front link. A session will open in your browser.
You'll notice that window management is quite different from what you're accustomed to, here's a brief guide: