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to "processor banks". At login, a user would request from the bank a machine with a given architecture and amount of memory. The system then assigned to the user a machine that served, for the duration of the login session, as their
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and other services. At its height, the Cambridge system consisted of some 90 machines.
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operating system. Additional special-purpose servers provided
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Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Motorola 68000
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
distributed operating system
Cambridge University
Cambridge Ring
local area network
terminals
personal
TRIPOS
file



Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
"Distributed operating systems"
doi
10.1145/6041.6074
hdl
1871/2601
S2CID
5378019
Pike, R.
Thompson, K.
"Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
the original
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