Plan 9: The Way the Future Was

We know what Unix's future used to look like. It was designed by the research group at Bell Labs that built Unix and called ‘Plan 9 from Bell Labs’. Plan 9 was an attempt to do Unix over again, better.

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Can somebody explain to me the purpose of this scary operating system? It's freaking me out! http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/screenshot.html

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Plan 9 on Blue Gene

A team comprised of members from Bell-Labs, IBM Research, Sandia National Labs, and Vita Nuova has completed a port of Plan 9 to the Blue Gene supercomputer. Plan 9 kernels are running on both the compute nodes and the I/O nodes and the Ethernet, Torus, Collective Network, Barrier Network, and Management network are all supported.

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Bell-Lab's Plan 9

Developed by the people who devised Unix, i.e. Bell Labs, Plan 9 takes OS development back into the realm of research. Plan 9 is an attempt to work on the concept of operating system from the ground up, reworking the whole idea using modern concepts and technology.

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