From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: giacomo@tesio.it (Giacomo Tesio) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:27:42 +0100 Subject: [9fans] Talk by Charles Forsyth on Feb 1st at Imperial College London, 13:00 -14:00 In-Reply-To: <72dc66d7-3a33-7553-6082-22430769884d@imperial.ac.uk> References: <974C25E2-4F18-4865-B2C2-1C21FFE75F99@lsub.org> <72dc66d7-3a33-7553-6082-22430769884d@imperial.ac.uk> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb57f97e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Please share a link here, when ready! Giacomo 2018-01-29 11:36 GMT+01:00 Hugues Evrard : > 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 > 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 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: