9-11: The fateful date As in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 I was anxiously watching on TV the dramatic events taking place in Ne w York City, and saw the two World Trade Center towers engulfed in immense flames brought about by terrorists who deliberately crashed two passenger jets into them, my training in Structural Engineering instantly elicited in me visions of doom, and a feeling...

It is quite difficult and tedious to share devices among different operating systems. If we also want to share other resources, like the state of a web browser or an editor, it becomes next to impossible. Similar problems are solved inside Plan 9 [14] and Inferno [4] by using the 9P protocol [9]. The normal approach, though, is to write an applica­ tion or a device driver providing a filesystem...