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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 over Linux?
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Mon,  1 Mar 2004 03:05:24 -0800
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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.