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| | From the inventors of UNIX system comes Plan 9 from Bell Labs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The Plan 9 operating system, named for the science-fiction cult movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space," was designed by the inventors of the UNIX® system, a widely used operating system created at Bell Labs 25 years ago. |
 | | The Plan 9 team was led by researchers Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom, with contributions from others in the Computing Science Research Center and support from Dennis Ritchie, head of the Computing Techniques Research Department. |
 | | The Plan 9 operating system was built over the past several years by members of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J., the same group that developed UNIX, C language and C++. |
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