Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system developed at Bell Labs as a successor to Unix, emphasizing a unified file-oriented approach to all system resources.

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs canonical 7
Plan 9 3
Plan 9 namespace model 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf distributed operating system
research operating system
alternativeName Plan 9 from Bell Labs
surface form: Plan 9
architecture distributed
basedOn Unix
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designedAsSuccessorTo Unix
developer Bell Telephone Laboratories
surface form: AT&T Bell Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories
surface form: Bell Labs

Dave Presotto
Dennis Ritchie
Ken Thompson
Phil Winterbottom
Rob Pike
inception 1987
late 1980s
includesComponent acme text editor
plumber interprocess communication service
rio window system
sam text editor
influenced Go programming language tooling culture
Inferno operating system
Linux /proc file system
namespaces in modern operating systems
influencedBy Unix design philosophy
initialRelease 1992
early 1990s
kernelType microkernel-like
keyConcept /proc process file system
9P network protocol
everything is a file
file-oriented interface to all resources
per-process name spaces
license Lucent Public License
open source license
namedAfter Plan 9 from Outer Space
surface form: Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959 film)
networkProtocol 9P
notableFeature lightweight terminals connected to central servers
uniform file system interface for devices
notableRelease Fourth Edition
operatingSystemFamily Unix-like operating system
programmingLanguage C
sourceModel later open source
originally proprietary
supports distributed computing
transparent resource sharing over a network
targetHardware MIPS
PowerPC
SPARC microprocessor architecture
surface form: SPARC

x86
userInterface rio window system
website https://9p.io/plan9/

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Ken Thompson coCreatorOf Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Ken Thompson notableWork Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Rob Pike knownFor Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Rob Pike workedOn Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Rob Pike notableWork Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs alternativeName Plan 9 from Bell Labs
this entity surface form: Plan 9
Inferno operating system basedOn Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Inferno operating system canRunOn Plan 9 from Bell Labs
this entity surface form: Plan 9
Inferno basedOn Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Inferno inspiredBy Plan 9 from Bell Labs
this entity surface form: Plan 9 namespace model
Inferno canRunOn Plan 9 from Bell Labs
this entity surface form: Plan 9