From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and multicores/parallelism/concurrency?
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:08:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30807140208u78f7299dq85b6238ad33f8976@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d08d7019-7b25-4f0f-a07e-840d94591f4f@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM, ssecorp <circularfunc@gmail.com> wrote:
> from wikipedia:
> "Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily
> used for research."
>
> but it doesnt say anything more about the distributed part.
>
> In what way does it make it easy?
Plan 9 makes it easy via 9p, its file system/resource sharing
protocol. In plan 9, things like graphics and network drivers export a
9p interface (a filetree). Furthermore, 9p is network transparent
which means accesses to remote resources look exactly like accesses to
local resources, and this is the main trick - processes do not care
whether the file they are interested in is being served by the kernel,
a userspace process, or a machine half way across the world.
-sqweek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 8:45 ssecorp
2008-07-14 9:08 ` sqweek [this message]
2008-07-14 16:17 ` Iruata Souza
2008-07-14 16:31 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-14 10:15 ` a
2008-07-14 15:32 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-14 16:00 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-14 16:29 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-14 20:08 ` a
2008-07-14 20:39 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-14 22:12 ` a
2008-07-17 12:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-17 12:40 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-17 13:00 ` ron minnich
2008-07-14 20:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-14 16:35 erik quanstrom
[not found] <f1209aefaab5eece7465c3d0df545ddd@quanstro.net>
2008-07-14 20:33 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-15 1:37 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-07-15 8:01 ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-15 17:50 ` Paul Lalonde
2008-07-17 19:29 ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-18 3:31 ` Paul Lalonde
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