quite Off Topic: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow

[Georg Lehner <jorge-plan9@magma.com.ni>]

"ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/12/06, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It'd be sweet to have something I could power off of USB 2.0 or
>> battery, with a hard drive and wireless (and maybe a serial port for
>> jmk).
>
> yeah, this was one of the ideas that came up before we started on Xen
> again, but Aki and Andrey and Lucho beat me up on this idea. It came
> down to the EC on one side, and me on the other, and that ended it.

Wikipedia:

Early Childhood education
Electric Circus
Elimination Chamber
Emergency Contraception
Eric Clapton
Exacoulomb
ahhhhhh!!!!

EC = Executive Committee! 8-0

>
> I suggested running linux on a little 1-5W board, and using it to run
> the linux apps, using a root mount from Plan 9. So Linux is this dumb
> little headless box you only turn on when you want, and otherwise you
> tell it to go away by yanking its power cord, verily.
>
> They thought the idea, uh, lacked merit. (I think they said it sucked,
> but am not sure).
>
> I think one reason the idea may really suck is that Firefox (the "thin
> client") requires a 200 MB footprint, which translates to gobs of
> Watts. Figures. Web 2.0!
>
> [[BTW, anybody but me enjoying the idea of taking an opteron out of
> socket and replacing with ... an ... XML ... accelerator?]]
>
> But I still like the 'stupid little linux CPU' idea. I want a backpack
> full of little computers that spin up on demand. And don't weigh much.
> and take no power. And have no moving parts. And generate no heat. And
> use a fusion reactor for power. And, to reduce weight, have
> antigravity pods. I guess I'll go visit Area 52 this weekend (Area 51
> is always behind schedule and over budget).

http://www.intellasys.net/

Though: Do you feel like re-implement Plan9 in machine Forth?

>
> ron

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    Jorge-León