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Re:The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy by rmusial on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:00PM (#13778662)
"Taking into account the numerous mistakes of UNIX. However, no one raises Plan 9 on a pedestal."

Suckless and cat-v.org would disagree. I'd also disagree since I'm a huge fan of plan9port.

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Re:The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy by dekhn on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:40PM (#13778974)
The Plan 9 FS network protocol, P9, is extremely well regarded and the basis for a number of security projects.
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Re:The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy by ptman on Friday March 03, 2017 @07:32AM (#13782420)
the procotol is actually called 9P (or 9p): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)
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