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