From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ADCA879.80708@conducive.org> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:57:13 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20091019163456.GF13857@nipl.net> <13426df10910191030p3801b72ahaaebc529422d6417@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df10910191030p3801b72ahaaebc529422d6417@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ba75562-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ron minnich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sam Watkins wrote: > >> The "processors" (actually smaller processing units) would mostly be configured >> at load time, much like an FPGA. Most units would execute a single simple >> operation repeatedly on streams of data, they would not read instructions and >> execute them sequentially like a normal CPU. >> >> The data would travel through the system step by step, it would mostly not need >> to be stored in RAM. If some RAM was needed, it would be small amounts on >> chip, at appropriate places in the pipeline. >> >> Some programs (not so much video encoding I think) do need a lot of RAM for >> intermediate calculations, or IO for example to fetch stuff from a database. >> Such systems can also be designed as networks of simple processing units >> connected by data streams / pipelines. > > I think we could connect them with hyperbarrier technology. Basically > we would use the Jeffreys tube, and exploit Bell's theorem and quantum > entanglement. Then we could blitz the snarf with the babble, tie it > all together with a blotz, and we're done. > > ron > > Sounds magical. Can any of that approach be used to address Plan9's shortage of drivers and such? Bill (Ducks and waddles away....) ;-)