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== Features ==
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Inferno programs are portable across a broad mix of hardware, networks, and environments. It defines a [[virtual machine]], known as [[Dis virtual machine|Dis]], that can be implemented on any real machine, provides [[Limbo (programming language)|Limbo]], a [[Type safe|type-safe]] language that is compiled to portable byte code, and, more significantly, it includes a virtual operating system that supplies the same interfaces whether Inferno
runs natively on hardware or runs as a user program on top of another operating system.

A [[communications protocol]] called [[Styx (protocol)|Styx]] is applied uniformly to access both local and remote resources, which programs use by calling standard file operations, open, read, write, and close. As of the fourth edition of Inferno, Styx is identical to [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]]'s newer version of its hallmark [[9P (protocol)|9P]] protocol, [[9P2000]].

{{see also|List of Inferno applications}}

Most of the Inferno commands are very similar to [[List of Unix commands|Unix commands]] with the same name.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://man.cat-v.org/inferno/1/|title=Inferno - 1}}</ref>