/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 Januar
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?)
