Re: [9fans] Plan 9 or Inferno, which ot choose?

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 or Inferno, which ot choose?

[Anthony Sorace]

//Are there any web sites from bell labs which related to inferno?

note that Vita Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com) are the official home
for Inferno these days. if you're looking for info on the system as
it stands, you'd probably do best to look there. the old bell-labs
sites have been converted into VN pages, and any info from the Labs
would probably be mostly historical at this point.

//when do we need plan 9 and Inferno?

in addition to the main difference pointed out by DAG, there are
othere differences (well, the first probably spawned the latter, but
they're still worth noting). Plan 9 is intended as a "general
purpose operating system for networked devices" (from VN's page). it
has memory/disk requirements along the lines of other "general
purpose" OSs (although less intensive than most). it runs (or ran)
on all sorts of server- and workstation-class hardware, like MIPS
terminals, SGI servers, Sun boxes, and so on. applications run, more
or less, the same way they do on other OSs - pre-compiled binaries
getting run by the processor. Inferno is mainly for devices, like
the mythical "networked toaster". it's much smaller, and in a normal
environment, has much lower requirements. it runs (or ran) on a few
different web phones, set-top boxes, even a PDA or two. applications
run via an interpreter, making the actual binary portable, but
somewhat slower (although much better than some other virtual
machines **cough*Java*cough*).

check out VNs site. they sell both. they can probably explain all
this much better than i can.
: anothy;

[9fans] Plan 9 or Inferno, which ot choose?

[Alexander L]

Hi again :-)

Another questions, when do we need plan 9 and Inferno? They seem like the
same thing but I feel there's a difference between them. Are there any web
sites
from bell labs which related to inferno?


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