In a typical Plan 9 installation, users work at lightweight terminals running the rio GUI and connect via the network to CPU servers that handle computation-intensive processes, with permanent data storage provided by additional hosts acting as file servers and archival storage.
Users work at lightweight terminals. This is in a typical Plan 9 installation. These lightweight terminals are running the rio GUI. Users connect via the network to CPU servers. This is in a typical Plan 9 installation. This network to CPU servers handle computation-intensive processes, with permanent data storage. This permanent data storage is provided by additional hosts. These additional hosts are acting as file servers. These additional hosts are acting as archival storage.