Back in the day, the researchers at Bell labs developed an experimental network operating system called Plan 9. Although it had some highly compelling technical characteristics—including a sophisticated network-transparent interprocess communication mechanism—the platform never gained serious acceptance outside of research and academic circles.
Plan 9's spiritual successor, a platform called Inferno, is still actively developed by an embedded systems company called Vita Nuova, with the involvement of hobbyists and researchers. A group at Sandia National Laboratories recently developed a port of Inferno that runs on top of Google's Android mobile operating system.
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