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Re:The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 (1993) by colordrops on Sunday July 05, 2015 @02:07AM (#9832660)
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. I think that's because there were two mentions of Plan 9 in one day. Otherwise, we only see it every few days or so.
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Re:The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 (1993) by vezzy-fnord on Sunday July 05, 2015 @09:26AM (#9833461)
I was inspired by one of the users' puzzlement over Plan 9 over at the Scheme 9 interpreter thread to post this paper, since it explains the core concept of per-process namespaces.

And since no one else had done so before, bafflingly.

Also keep in mind that Plan 9 has involved significantly since the publication date. 8 1/2 and WORM have been superseded by rio and Venti, the 9P protocol is a bit more extensive, ndb and /net plus the auth subsystem have become more prominent since then, etc.

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