Has anyone tried Plan9 (from Bell)?

Doing some research, i bumped into it.. it's looks like an interesting system..
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
I'll be writing a full review sometime (when I have time...)

From the little I've read, the concept behind it seems really appealing, brilliant actually, but I've never tried it. I'm not sure if I'm correct, but my understanding is that it's not designed to be used on a single home computer though, but rather in a distributed setting connected to centralized servers that handle many operations(cpu intensive processes, data storage, etc). Apparently you can run multiple virtual machines on one computer to simulate this, though I don't think that's what Bell intended at all. Seems like it would be really well suited for an academic/research/business setting where lots of people are using the same applications to do the same types of things. I don't really understand how/why it would be used as a personal/home OS. Perhaps I'm wrong though.
Interesting, but superficial side note: The 9wm window manager available in the AUR supposedly mimics pretty closely the real plan9 window manager. Judging by the fact that it has only 5 votes... I'm guessing it's not that great.

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