Plan 9 A Distributed System
| Author(s) : | Ken Thompson Rob Pike Dave Presotto Howard Trickey, |
| Publisher : | N/A |
| Publication Date : | 1991 |
| ISSN : | N/A |
| Abstract : | Plan 9 is a computing environment physically distributed across many machines. The distribution itself is transparent to most programs giving both users and administrators wide latitude in configuring the topology of the environment. Two properties make this possible: a per process group name space and uniform access to all resources by representing them as files. 1., |