Lecture 16 homework: The Plan 9 OS

Handed out: Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Due: Monday, November 8, 2004
Read: Plan 9 paper

Hand-In Procedure

You are to turn in this homework during lecture. Please write up your answers to the exercises below and hand them in to a 6.828 staff member by the end of the lecture.

Plan 9 Features

Keep the following two questions in mind while reading the plan 9 paper. After you finish the paper, write up your answers:

Question 1
List three features introduced by Plan 9 that have since been implemented in today's common operating systems: Windows, Linux, or BSD.

Question 2
List three features introduced by Plan 9 that have not been adopted by today's common operating systems.

Why do you think this is? (A few sentences is fine.)

This completes the homework.