Inferno (operating system)

Inferno is an MIT licensed distributed operating system that Bell Labs began building in 1995 and first released in 1996, designed to let applications and resources work consistently across many kinds of hardware and network environments. After Lucent Technologies closed the Bell Labs research center that had built it in 2005, Vita Nuova Holdings acquired the system and continued its development, and its 32 bit line is now maintained by Terzarima Systems alongside a separately maintained 64 bit fork called Inferno64. Applications for Inferno are written in Limbo, a type-safe language that compiles to architecture-independent bytecode run by the Dis virtual machine, so the same program runs unchanged on every Inferno platform. Inferno descends from Plan 9 from Bell Labs, sharing many of its design ideas and some of its source code, including the Styx/9P2000 protocol, and it represents both local and remote resources as files inside hierarchical namespaces to support distributed applications. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/