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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:31:37 pm by CraigBox
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:24:13 pm by SamJansen Revert
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-Some crazy [Unix] system some people made once. I dunno. 
+ ''[Sammy|SamJansen] describes Plan 9 as " Some crazy [Unix] system some people made once. I dunno."''  
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+[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/] is a distributed OperatingSystem, mostly used for research. It was developed to replace UNIX as the research operating system at BellLabs.  
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+Notable features include:  
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+* absolutely __everything__ being a file  
+* being the father of [UTF-8], which was invented for Plan 9  
+* the [9P] Distributed FileSystem  
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+See also:  
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+* [WikiPedia:Plan 9 from Bell Labs]  
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+CategoryOperatingSystem