ESR had a nice overview of Plan 9 in his book "The Art of Unix Programming": http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html

ESR had a nice overview of Plan 9 in his book "The Art of Unix Programming": http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html It may well be that over time, much more of Plan 9 will work its way into Unix as various portions of Unix's architecture slide into senescence. (Still one of my favorite books on software development).