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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish
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On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Noah Evans wrote:

> http://ramp.eecs.berkeley.edu/
>
> Tim: Andrew Baumann is aware of Plan 9 but their approach is quite a
> bit different. They are consciously avoiding the networking issue as
> well(they've been asked to extend their messaging model to the network
> and have actively said they're not interested).
>

While they may not be interested in implementing a network messaging
model, they don't oppose it.  Jonathan and I talked with Andrew about
porting Barrelfish to Blue Gene yesterday to test some of their
scalability claims at large scale.

        -eric