From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60711131401u7c2cf395pd79940131329d1af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:01:06 -0800 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix? In-Reply-To: <10fff12b936142101bc1cb597fd73565@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5d375e920711130849w17055023s8c47f3c9b5b5e864@mail.gmail.com> <10fff12b936142101bc1cb597fd73565@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f881dce6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 13, 2007 9:19 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > 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. Not quite. The mac os x kernel is XNU which stands for XNU's Not Unix. It might have mach inside, but the unix is in there too. I used to run Mac OS X on my own custom kernels back in 2001 for "fun". Dave