/n was introduced (i believe) in 8th edition for weinberger's neta (and later netb) remote filesystem.
there was a directory in /n for each remote machine. the gmount() system call was used to mount a stream, usually a datakit connection, to the remote machine. it was great. brucee On 13 January 2014 19:32, <fge...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I first met plan9 (2nd ed) I realized that /n was a very powerful > ordering concept. (Since then I usually create a /n or ~/n on every > unix where I will use mount to customize my ns.) > I'd like to know > - what's the story of /n? (why was it invented?) > - what does n stand for? (a set of n things?) > thanks, > fgergo > >
