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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:48:18 -0700
From: dukeofperl@ml1.net
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Duke Normandin wrote:

> Just read:
>
> http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/0intro
>
> [quote]
> Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate
> machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers.[/quote]
>
> Does the above imply, that ideally Plan9 should be running on a LAN?
> Not so good as the OS on a stand-alone box?
>

Then I went to:

http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/4/0intro

and got a better handle on what is meant by "server". Not another
machine on the network, but any application that "serves up files" for
whatever reason. Correct?
--
Duke