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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
KindOperating system
Appeared1992
StatusDormant
CreatorBell Labs (Pike, Thompson et al)
FamilyUnix
Platformvarious
Also known asPlan 9
Source9p.io ↗

Unix's own team, second attempt — everything really is a file, per-process namespaces, 9P; too early for its century, still mined for ideas.

Descended from Research Unix
Created by Bell Labs Ken Thompson Rob Pike

Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1992) — the Unix team's next experiment — took 'everything is a file' to its conclusion: per-process namespaces, 9P as the universal protocol, Rio as the GUI, and Inferno/Limbo as successor experiments.\n\nRob Pike and Ken Thompson's clean-slate design influenced everything it touched (Go, /proc, UTF-8); Plan 9 itself never left the lab. It's now under the Plan 9 Foundation's MIT license.

Sources

  1. 9p.io/plan9/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs