From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 over Linux?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 03:05:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf8732c07d6a15a7cba897723c4a6013@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <196f381b.0402281054.64590cad@posting.google.com>
Plan 9 isn't Unix, it's a distributed system built from the ground up
to run over varied networks, to provide good fast graphics capability,
to provide permanent storage with daily views available, and to
exploit shared-memory multiprocessors, all unlike Unix. See
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/plan9.html for a longer answer.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 11:05 UTC|newest]
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2004-03-01 10:35 Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-03-01 11:05 ` Geoff Collyer [this message]
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