[9fans] vita nuova announce inferno 3rd edition

[9fans] vita nuova announce inferno 3rd edition

[Roger Pepp]

we are pleased to announce that the 3rd edition of inferno is now
available.
see http://www.vitanuova.com/ for details, on-line manual pages, etc.

the announcement goes like this:

Vita Nuova today announced that it has obtained the exclusive,
worldwide rights to the Inferno Operating System from Lucent
Technologies' Bell Labs and that it is to publish the Inferno source
code under inexpensive, commercial licence terms. Vita Nuova has also
announced that Lucent Technologies and a UK investor have invested
equity capital into Vita Nuova to develop and market Inferno.

Personal Inferno Subscriptions cost $300 with a 50% discount for
academics and students. Corporate subscriptions cost from $1000 for
five developers.  You can order your Inferno boxed set including CD,
programmer's manual and papers today.  Full details can be found at the
Vita Nuova web site at www.vitanuova.com


enjoy!
  rog.

[9fans] Re: vita nuova announce inferno 3rd edition

[Wladimir Mutel]

In comp.os.plan9 Roger Pepp <rog@vitanuova.com> wrote:
> we are pleased to announce that the 3rd edition of inferno is now
> available.
> see http://www.vitanuova.com/ for details, on-line manual pages, etc.

	To say, are there any fundamental architecture differences between
plan9 and inferno, except that inferno uses bytecode interpreting virtual
machine while plan9 uses cross-compiling ?

	And to add a question, may limbo and inferno's library
infrastructure be (back)ported to plan9 ?

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