[Beowulf] Plan 9

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Jun 20 19:03:04 PDT 2008


"Peter St. John" <peter.st.john at gmail.com> writes:
> I was surprised to see Plan 9 deployed on a Blue Gene,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene#Plan_9_support.
> I think of Plan 9 as the direct descendant of System V;

Not even remotely related to System V, and Rob Pike would probably
giggle uproariously at the idea. In fact, Plan 9 is sort of the
anti-SysV.

> Has anybody tried it?

It is neat, but it is even more fringe than the normal fringe
choices...

Perry



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