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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:38:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86cbf24a4179c5189cc22e8d6a6373d5@quanstro.net> (raw)

sorry for the stupid question.  i didn't mean to step in that.

- erik

On Wed Mar 29 22:28:01 CST 2006, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> On Wed Mar 29 20:52:09 EST 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> > do you have some pointers to papers from these guys?
> >
> > from my uneducated position, it seems to me that plan9 has a large
> > percentage of what microkernels claim.  one thing one can't
> > do is write a hardware driver that lives in userspace.  one advantage
> > of this could be the ability to load drivers depending on configuration.
> >
> > has anybody invested some brain cells in this?
> >
> > - erik
>
> yes, brain cells have been burned on that and it has been done.
> but we're waiting for uriel's replacement for 9load before the
> details are finalised. after all, we don't want to waste our time
> doing something that's already been done but just not released.
>
> --jim


             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-30 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-30 11:38 erik quanstrom [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-28 18:15 [9fans] new compilers Bakul Shah
2006-03-28 18:29 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-28 18:52   ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 19:15     ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 16:33       ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 16:49         ` [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 18:04           ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 18:45             ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-03-29 19:41               ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-29 23:27             ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30  0:38               ` quanstro
2006-03-30  1:29                 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30  2:40                   ` quanstro
2006-03-30  1:55                     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30  2:13                     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-30  4:26                     ` jmk
2006-03-30 16:08                     ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 16:02                   ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 18:14                 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 12:46               ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 13:43                 ` Richard Miller
2006-03-30 13:49                   ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-29 18:20           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-29 18:58             ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 23:16           ` lucio
2006-03-30  2:00             ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-03-30  5:06               ` lucio

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