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From: suspect <suspect@suspicious.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:10:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <64580E00-016A-11D7-AF22-000393477E42@suspicious.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a4616872e042989ec3257d1b4c44963@centurytel.net>

If a virtualisation of the hardware is what's wanted, then why
not go for Inferno ? (Aside from not being able to run your
C programs, but there are ways around that).

cheers,


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 09:19  AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

>>> As for a C compiler generating Dis, I believe that Dis
>>> cannot express all the things that one can do in C.
>>
>> It could be done, by mapping all C objects into a single
>> large Dis object and all code into a single module, for
>> example, also providing hooks to get at some of the non-C
>> features.  But why?
>
> The original thread was 'what if instead of drawterm there was a
> Dis-style VM and there was a C compiler for Dis so that you can
> run Plan9 term under other OS, without VMware'.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-26 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-26 14:19 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-11-26 18:10 ` suspect [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-27  1:31 Joel Salomon
2002-11-26 20:47 Keith Nash
2002-11-26 21:01 ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-27  9:40   ` Robin KAY
2002-11-27 18:11   ` Dan Cross
2002-11-30  8:11     ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-30 14:51       ` Dan Cross
2002-12-02  9:58       ` Robin KAY
2002-11-27 10:45 ` Martin C.Atkins
2002-11-26  6:19 Geoff Collyer
2002-11-26  9:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-26 16:24 ` Jack Johnson
2002-11-27 16:45   ` Steven Taschuk
2002-11-26  2:34 Skip Tavakkolian

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