Re: [9fans] Six year ANTS-iversary

[Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com>]

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Congrats !

пн, 11 мар. 2019 г. в 21:48, <mycroftiv@sphericalharmony.com>:

> Tanna: For six years, our ANTS have been upon the Earth, what is their
>         status?
> Eros: Our Plan 9 plan is succeeding at last.  Numerous Earth
>         people have accepted our namespace technologies.
> Tanna: Let our efforts be propagated across global grid networks!
> Eros: It is already done.  Few may be aware, but our ANTS colony
>         spawns have encircled the planet.
>
> Hey 9fans.  As Jim Anchower used to say - been a long time since I
> rapped at ya.  Most of the people who are potentially interested in my
> Plan 9 software and projects probably already know about them, since I
> am active in several other communication channels, but I figured I
> should drop a post here, just for the record.
>
> ANTS development has continued for the past six years.  It
> transitioned to being primarily 9front based in 2015, and support for
> Bell Labs 9 was relegated to a historical-preservation repo at the end
> of 2017.  The people with a strong traditionalist bent didn't seem to
> be interested anyway.  There has been a live/install iso image for the
> past year or so, which brought a lot more users.  I'll be releasing a
> new iso image sometime during the next week or so, I think.
>
> In addition to ANTS software, the long dormant public grid project was
> resurrected in early 2018 and has been far more successful than the
> early attempts in the 2008-10 era.  It has a small but active user
> community and has been a nice place for collaborative software
> development and testing.  The technical foundations are a bit rickety
> and insecure, but we haven't had many issues so far.
>
> The most significant project is the Spawngrid, which came online in
> late 2018.  It is a rather ambitious attempt to use ANTS as a platform
> for a "competitor" to service platforms like AWS/azure/GCE.  It has a
> global network of venti servers which replicate data to each other and
> allow multiple independent user environments to be spawned on the
> attached cpu servers.  It has also worked surprisingly well, although
> it has only a small number of regular users.
>
> Most recently, I have been pursing historical investigation and
> recreation of systems based on the hypercubic computers which rose to
> prominence in the late 1980s.  Most interesting (to me) are the
> systems from nCUBE, which transitioned during the 1990s to a Plan 9
> based (!) operating system called Transit which was used for streaming
> video appliance servers such as the Mediacube 4.  I am very very
> interested in the Transit OS and this history, and I can find almost
> no substantive information about the Transit variant of Plan 9,
> although information on the earlier generation of nCUBE systems is
> fairly plentiful.
>
> Information and links and blog posts and downloads about all this
> stuff is spread across the 9gridchan.org ANTS-empire.
>
> Peace and Love to all,
> Mycroftiv
>
>

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С наилучшими пожеланиями
Жилкин Сергей
With best regards
Zhilkin Sergey

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