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Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:31:37 pm | by CraigBox | 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