On 7/14/08, sqweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM, ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from wikipedia: > > "Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily > > used for research." > > > > but it doesnt say anything more about the distributed part. > > > > > In what way does it make it easy? > > > Plan 9 makes it easy via 9p, its file system/resource sharing > protocol. In plan 9, things like graphics and network drivers export a > 9p interface (a filetree). Furthermore, 9p is network transparent > which means accesses to remote resources look exactly like accesses to > local resources, and this is the main trick - processes do not care > whether the file they are interested in is being served by the kernel, > a userspace process, or a machine half way across the world. >
more on 9p at http://9p.cat-v.org -- iru
