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FreeOS  Plan 9 All Plan 9 : News : Vita Nuova breaks new OS ground
Posted: ( Wed 29th Nov 2000 05:04:21[PM] UTC )
Founded by group of computer scientists and entrepreneurs from the University of York in Great Britain, Vita Nuova has spent the past four years building a company around an operating system that, at least from the current status quo perspective, seems about as crazy as its name: the Plan 9 Operating System.
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Name
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Plan 9
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Official site
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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
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Download from
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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html
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License
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Plan 9
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FAQ
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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
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Description
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Plan 9 began in the late 1980's to build a system that was centrally
administered and cost-effective using cheap modern microcomputers as its
computing elements. The idea was to build a time-sharing system out of
workstations, but in a novel way. Different computers would handle
different tasks: small, cheap machines in people's offices would serve as
terminals providing access to large, central, shared resources such as
computing servers and file servers.
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Development Status
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This OS was recently released to the open source community but it seems to
have been a bit too late. There has not been much interest in this
promising OS.
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