I do see a lot of potential applications of the idea: - remote storage. Instead of having some files here, some files there, I'd rather have all my files live

I do see a lot of potential applications of the idea: - remote storage. Instead of having some files here, some files there, I'd rather have all my files live somewhere (possibly my NAS at home, replicated on some servers out there) and have my smartphone/laptop remotely fetch data into it. Of course, with a local cache for frequently accessed files. 9P allows that. - I'd like to proxy all my connexions through a machine I know and control. 9P allows that. - I'd like to print from anywhere to my printer. 9P allows that. While it is easy to think Plan 9 is about having the CPU on a remote machine and the display on the local machine, the true killer-feature of Plan 9 is 9P; the protocol that actually allows a user to say everything is a file.