What is Plan 9?
Plan 9 is a new computer operating system and associated utilities. It has been built over the past several years by the Computing Sciences Research Centre of Bell Laboratories, the same group that developed Unix, C, and C++.
Plan 9 is a distributed system. In the most general configuration, it uses three kinds of components: Terminals that sit on users’ desks, file servers that store permanent data, and CPU servers that provide faster CPUs, user authentication, and network gateways. These components are connected by various kinds of networks, including Ethernet, Datakit, specially-built fibre networks, ordinary modem connections, and ISDN. In typical use, users interact with applications that run either on their terminals or on CPU servers, and the applications get their data from the servers, but it's also small enough to run by itself on a laptop. It is highly configurable; it escapes from specific models of networked workstations and centralmachine service.
JOKES
JOKE1: Little Raju came to his mother suddenly.
Raju: Mom, is it true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away?
Mother: Yes! But why are you asking me?
Raju: Mom, I will tell you later. First give me an apple. It’s very urgent.
Mother: Here is the apple. Now let me know why you are in such a hurry.
Raju: I have broken the windowpane of the doctors house and he may come any moment to beat me.
Mother: Oh, dear!
JOKE2: Teacher: Balu, what does your father do?
Balu: He does whatever my mother tells him to do
N.B. The following pages contain Application Software most commonly used bycomputer users. This class of software is used for specific purposes such as word processing, Desktop publishing etc.
Features
Drawing program; extensive toolset; extrude 2-D into 3-D drawings; excellent text-handing; cropped images; color filters; includes Photo- Paint.
System RequirementsPentium processor, 16MB RAM
Hard Disk Usage40 MB
Platforms
Windows 95/98, Windows NT
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