Recommended readings -Diff-

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BEFORE INSTALLING THE SYSTEM

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs - The main paper.

• The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9

• The Organization of Networks in Plan 9

• README - by Brian Kernighan

JUST AFTER INSTALLING THE SYSTEM

• intro(1) - introduction to Plan 9 man page

• Introduction to Operating Abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs

• 'Using The System' wiki pages

• UNIX_to_Plan_9_command_translation

• Tip_o'_the_day

• FAQ

• The Unix Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. ISBN 0-13-937681-X (paperback), 0-13-937699-2 (hardback)

FOR DEVELOPERS

• How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler - Introduction to the Plan 9 developement environment, not only the compilers, but the libraries, build(mk(1)) and debugging(acid(1)) tools. A must read for developers new to Plan 9.

• Resources about threaded programming in the Bell Labs CSP style by Russ S. Cox.

• The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9 (2005) by C. H. Forsyth.

• Distributed Computing With Plan 9 by Sape Mullender and Dave Presotto.

• Notes on the Plan 9 kernel source: PDF, PDF A4 GZ¸ ASCII plain text; and the corresponding kernel source snapshot.

• Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) by Tony Hoare - CSP is the concurrency model used in Inferno and thread(2) - For more information see http://www.usingcsp.com

SEE ALSO

Papers, /sys/doc/*, doc archive Plan 9 section.

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