Plan 9 open-sourced

[ken_gosier at yahoo.com (Ken Gosier)]

--- Scott Lanning <slanning at buphy.bu.edu> wrote:
> Not Linux, but interesting to Linux users I think.
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000607/nj_bell_la.html
> 


Question: in the article, they list as being one of the
radical ideas pioneered by Plan 9:

"naming and accessing all system resources as if they were 
files"

How is this different from what Unix does?

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Ken Gosier
ken_gosier at yahoo.com

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