[9fans] Talk by Charles Forsyth on Feb 1st at Imperial College London, 13:00 -14:00

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2018-01-29 11:36 GMT+01:00 Hugues Evrard <h.evrard at imperial.ac.uk>:

> Yes it should be recorded, and made available online later on (I needed
> confirmation before answering here).
> Thanks,
> Hugues
>
>
> On 24/01/18 09:32, Fran. J Ballesteros wrote:
>
> will it be avail online, somehow?
> thanks.
>
> El 24 ene 2018, a las 10:16, Hugues Evrard <h.evrard at imperial.ac.uk>
> escribi?:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Thursday Feb. 1st (next week), Charles Forsyth will kindly give an
> introduction talk to plan9 and inferno at Imperial College in London. If
> you are in the London area, don't hesitate to join and to relay this
> announce!
>
> Here is the abstract:
> Plan 9 and Inferno are two operating systems (originally developed by the
> Bell Labs centre that produced Unix decades earlier). Both were designed
> to allow systems to be composed from smaller cooperating systems performing
> specific tasks. They provide structural support for distribution, at the
> operating system level. Their defining novelty is the representation of
> all distributable resources as hierarchical name spaces. There are
> conventional names for certain resources, but no global name space.
> Instead, the kernel provides operations that compose name spaces of local
> and remote resources, at per-process granularity, to build a unique space
> to suit a given application. That can aid design, development, testing
> and integration. I'll give brief summaries of the two operating systems,
> and present examples of their use, with an emphasis on naming.
>
> The talk is at 13:00-14:00 in amphitheatre 311 of the Huxley building,
> whose entrance is at 180 Queen?s Gate, London SW7 2AZ. It is part of the
> iPr0gram talk series ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/iPr0gram/ ), where
> people external to Imperial College are warmly welcome, please just get in
> touch with Robert ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/ ) beforehand if you
> plan to join.
>
> As most of you already know, Charles has made numerous contributions to
> plan9 and inferno, and was instrumental in open-sourcing inferno. For more
> info, check out his homepage: http://www.terzarima.net/
> Please get in touch with me if you would like to have a chat with Charles
> in the afternoon, I can arrange a meeting room.
> Thanks,
> Hugues
>
>
>
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