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Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research operating system designed in the mid-1980s by the same Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs that built Unix, under Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and colleagues. It extends Unix's everything-is-a-file philosophy into a fully distributed, network-transparent design in which every resource, local or remote, is represented and accessed through a per-process namespace of files. Plan 9 has been free and open-source software since 2000, and while it never displaced Unix commercially, several of its ideas, including UTF-8, co-developed for the project, and union directories, were later adopted elsewhere. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Year
1992 1
Significance
A Bell Labs research operating system that extended Unix's everything-is-a-file philosophy into a distributed, network-transparent design. 1
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Ken Thompson, Pioneers
Rob Pike, Pioneers

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1. Wikipedia: Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs is an operating system designed by the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s, built on the UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. Since 2000, Plan 9 has been free and open-source.
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