The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9
Charles Forsyth · 2005
Plan 9 is a distributed system begun in the late 1980s by the Bell Labs research centre where Unix was born.1 Rather than having each computer in a network act as if it still controlled everything, Plan 9 is designed to allow a single large system to be built from smaller cooperating systems performing specific tasks, notably file service, authentication, cpu service and interactive graph-