Short Description:
Plan-9 is a distributed computing environment. It is assembled from separate machines acting as CPU servers, file servers, and terminals. The pieces are connected by a single file-oriented protocol and local name space operations. Plan-9 is a general-purp
ose, multi-user, portable distributed system implemented on a variety of computers and networks. It lacks a number of features often found in other distributed systems, including a uniform distributed name space, process migration, light-weight processes,
distributed file caching, personalized workstations and support of X-windows.
Model: server/client, loosely coupled
Properties: message passing
Transparency: location, access
Running on: SIG MIPS, MC68020
Date: 1987
FTP: research.att.com
WWW: Plan-9,
Plan-9 (AT&T);