Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM,  <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 08:16:40PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>> I cannot find the reference (sorry), but I read an interview with Ken
>> (Thompson) a while ago.
>>
>> He was asked what he would change if he where working on plan9 now,
>> and his reply was somthing like "I would add support for cloud computing".
>>
>> I admin I am not clear exactly what he meant by this.
>
> My interpretation of cloud computing is precisely the split done by
> plan9 with terminal/CPU/FileServer: a UI runing on a this Terminal, with
> actual computing done somewhere about data stored somewhere.

The problem is that the CPU and Fileservers can't be assumed to be
static. Things can and will go down, move about, and become
temporarily unusable over time.

>
> Perhaps tools for migrating tasks or managing the thing. But I have the
> impression that the Plan 9 framework is the best for such a scheme.
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