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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:49:57 -0800
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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On 12/13/05, andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> >> That's the Oberon part.
> >
> > Some of that is true, but they do more checking than
> > Oberon, and they can verify the bytecodes they ship around
> > while Oberon could make no such guarantee about its binaries.
> >
> > Russ
>
> i thought the problem was that they didn't reference other systems. i
> don't think anyone claims their work is purely derivative.
>

The subject of this thread is about MS Research reinventing Inferno... I
think that's a good indication some people thought it was "merely"
derivative :)

Dave

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<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 12/13/05, <b class=3D"gmail_sen=
dername">andrey mirtchovski</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:andrey@lanl.gov">andr=
ey@lanl.gov</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D=
"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padd=
ing-left: 1ex;">
&gt;&gt; That's the Oberon part.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Some of that is true, but =
they do more checking than<br>&gt; Oberon, and they can verify the bytecode=
s they ship around<br>&gt; while Oberon could make no such guarantee about =
its binaries.
<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Russ<br><br>i thought the problem was that they didn't ref=
erence other systems. i<br>don't think anyone claims their work is purely d=
erivative.<br></blockquote></div><br>The subject of this thread is about MS=
 Research reinventing Inferno... I think that's a good indication some peop=
le thought it was &quot;merely&quot; derivative :)
<br><br>Dave<br>

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