A while back the CWE-LUG members were interested in thin clients. I thought I would ask what happened to Plan 9? It seems to be like a thin client:
"Plan 9 is a distributed system that provides support for UNIX-like applications in an environment built from distinct CPU servers, file servers, and terminals connected by a variety of networks...." Plan 9 from Bell Labs http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html Anyone know why this never caught on? Here is a review of a commercial offering called Inferno: Inferno: One Hot OS http://www.byte.com/art/9706/sec4/art2.htm EXCERPT: "The complete OS and basic applications run in only 1 MB of RAM, making it suitable for embedded systems, such as network computers (NCs), set-top boxes, and PDAs." "However, the system's hardware-abstraction architecture (described below) makes it an ideal interface for high-performance server applications. For example, it allows an Internet service provider (ISP) to write mission-critical software that runs on a server farm using different hardware and host OSes. " Inferno home page: http://www.vitanuova.com/ -- Kind regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
