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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:19:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10fff12b936142101bc1cb597fd73565@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920711130849w17055023s8c47f3c9b5b5e864@mail.gmail.com>

> > i am reminded by a line from the labs' response to ast's usenix posting
> >    - UNIX can be successfully run as an application program
> >         `Run' perhaps, `successfully' no.  Name a product that succeeds
> >         by running UNIX as an application.
> >
> > s/UNIX/Plan 9/g
> 
> I love that post, but I don't think s/UNIX/Plan 9/g is valid, we are
> not talking about microkernels here, and see also Inferno.

i'm not saying it can't be done.  osx is *nix run as an application on
a bastardized mach kernel.  but "microkernel" is an empty nonsequitor.

what i am saying is that the glue layer is going to be huge.  and like
mach needed to be compromized to run osx well, linux will need to
be hacked to run plan 9 well.

and personally, i don't see the appeal.  you've been the most vocal
opponent of layering goo like this.

- erik


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13  9:28 Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 10:05 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-13 10:14   ` Uriel
2007-11-13 10:33     ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-13 14:25       ` David Leimbach
2007-11-14  0:51         ` Alexander Sychev
2007-11-13 21:37   ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 10:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 10:39 ` roger peppe
2007-11-13 10:47   ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 12:18     ` Uriel
2007-11-13 13:00     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 13:31       ` Uriel
2007-11-13 13:47         ` roger peppe
2007-11-13 14:10           ` sqweek
2007-11-13 13:54         ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 15:20           ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 18:23             ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-13 14:26         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 16:49           ` Uriel
2007-11-13 17:19             ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-11-13 17:24               ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 22:01               ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 15:16         ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 14:29       ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 17:21         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 21:41         ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 13:30 ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 15:35   ` Harri Haataja
2007-11-13 16:22     ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 16:43       ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13 16:39   ` Uriel
2007-11-13 16:46     ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 18:02       ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 18:12         ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 22:04         ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 22:16           ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 23:19           ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-14  2:23             ` R
2007-11-14 11:44               ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-14 12:17                 ` R
2007-11-14 12:40                   ` Christian Kellermann
2007-11-14 13:01                     ` R
2007-11-14 13:08                       ` Christian Kellermann
2007-11-13 17:48     ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 16:26 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-13 16:42   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 17:44     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14  5:44       ` ron minnich
2007-11-16  8:42 ` [9fans] Nine4Linux [WAS: Glendix?] Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-16 10:20   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]   ` <1b69251dfdcb6b8022ff78767f07ce86@quanstro.net>
2007-11-22 18:01     ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-22 22:00       ` Paweł Lasek

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