Plan 9, A Distributed System (1991)
Dave Presotto, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey
Plan 9 is a computing environment physically distributed across many machines. The distribution itself is transparent to most programs giving both users and administrators wide latitude in...
Plan 9, A Distributed System (1991)
Dave Presotto, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey
Plan 9 is a computing environment physically distributed across many machines. The distribution itself is transparent to most programs giving both users and administrators wide latitude in...
Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey
Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment. It is assembled from separate machines acting as CPU servers, file servers, and terminals. The pieces are connected by a single file-oriented protocol...
Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Sean Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, ...
By the mid 1980#s, the trend in computing was away from large centralized time-shared computers towards networks of smaller, personal machines, typically UNIX #worksta-tions#. People had grown weary...
Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey
Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment. It is assembled from separate machines acting as CPU servers, file servers, and terminals. The pieces are connected by a single file-oriented protocol...
Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor
Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Ken Thompson, Gerard Holzmann
The problem of enabling a `sleeping' process on a shared-memory multiprocessor is a difficult one, especially if the process is to be awakened by an interrupt-time event. We present here the...