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
