From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <0ce0a1b90472566e75a2e5f8c4700f25@quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:43:50 +1100 Message-ID: <775b8d190902022043s52dfac0br439c5c0a83c64869@mail.gmail.com> From: Bruce Ellis To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released Topicbox-Message-UUID: 931233f4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Or as Mark V. Shaney once said ... "Why can't everyone wake up at 3am, totally confused". I'm not sure of the relevance. brucee On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, wrote: >> maybe we could dispense with the kernel. >> it's complicated anyway. each application could drive >> hardware itself. but to make this easier, we'll used shared >> libraries. the only system service we'd need is a shared library >> loader. > > There's your final word in microkernels. Throw away security and > things get a lot less complicated. The human brain does not have, > that I am aware, security boundaries, why can't we model our personal > computers on that? > > ++L > > PS: In jest, of course, but there's some value... > > >