From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:01:01 +0000 From: "Kirk M. Anne" Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] Pointers for using Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 142ad466-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I am assisting a Computer Science faculty member with a Distributed Systems undergraduate course and we are working on Amoeba now. I spotted that Plan 9 is now available for downloading and have tinkered around with it and read through many of the papers. I was wondering if there were any example programs or "How to" documents that we can give out to the class to help them learn about Plan 9. We have built an Amoeba cluster and want to replicate the experience in Plan 9 so that the students can get a firm understanding of how distributed systems work (where there are similarities and differences between the two). So, could anyone send me the following? 1. Sample Plan 9 setup and guidelines for decisions (I'm still pouring over the Overview to Plan 9 networks) 2. Sample programs that use Plan 9 features 3. Recommendations for an upper level project using Plan 9 4. Pointers to SPARC and NeXT installation instructions for Plan 9 If this goes well, we hope to continue with directed studies on using Plan 9 to solve scientific problems that other faculty around campus have in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Kirk Anne Manager, Systems & Networking SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 716-245-5577