From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ab217670512122313y6da0dd6ck@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:13:53 -0800 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? In-Reply-To: <6bec4c2e9eee6a9e5369a0e693dd51b0@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6bec4c2e9eee6a9e5369a0e693dd51b0@9netics.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c2230c12-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2005/12/12, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>: > I'm not sure if this is old news to you all. It's something > that MS Research calls 'Singularity'. > > ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-135.pdf > > and a some interviews with the (re)inventors here: > > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=3D68302 > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=3D141858 yeah, i read about 20 pages of that paper and tossed it aside. my comment to the freebsd committer who pasted the url was ``plan 9.'' indeed, it does do a bit more with some things. but it's pure research. and it's somewhat stupid anyway. not to dis plan 9, but this sounds even less usable for most people. --devon p.s. please forgive my lack of a shift key, here. synergy decided to suck.