Plan 9 at ADFA

Christopher Vance
School of Computer Science, UNSW
Australian Defence Force Academy
Canberra ACT 2600
Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au
14 February 1996
Overview of this talk

Introduction

Compatibility

Design Features

Command Level

A Plan 9 System

Configuration and Administration

File Server Machines

Device Servers and Streams

Unusual File Servers

Compilers, Languages, Programming

Portability

Parallelism

Namespaces

Internet Link protocol

Authentication

Special users

File Permissions

Networking

Similarities to Unix

Differences from Unix

Significant Points of Plan 9

Discussion

ADFA

Plans

Impressive Bits

How do you get it

Help