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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:08:50 +0800
From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and multicores/parallelism/concurrency?
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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