From: "Pouya Tafti" <pouya+lists.9fans@nohup.io>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and Inferno and the JS VM
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:42:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53cd8aa9-8097-4ee4-9930-eb095f2d75ed@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201117140610.GA17186@polynum.com>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, at 15:06, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard has developed a VM in JavaScript (!!!) allowing to
> run an OS in a browser. See: https://bellard.org/jslinux/
>
> This was brought to my attention by a teacher wanting to teach TeX and
> litterate programming to students without the need for them to install
> anything.
Even if you didn't want to install anything, why run an entire VM+OS+application in the browser, as opposed to a lightweight client talking to a server?
Just a thought.
Pouya
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 14:06 tlaronde
2020-11-17 15:35 ` hiro
2020-11-17 17:08 ` tlaronde
2020-11-17 15:42 ` Pouya Tafti [this message]
2020-11-17 17:09 ` tlaronde
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