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Actually, if you translate the latin it is

	Plan 9 is a Grid operating system of its own kind.

sui generis is a possessive form (genus suum would be the subjective).
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> 'one of its kind', in the sense that nobody else is doing it right ;)

"Plan 9 is a Grid operating system sui generis"

the grammar is wrong, to my classically trained earlobe.
make your own substition and see how it sounds:
	"Plan 9 is a Grid operating system one of its kind".


-rob

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