From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: A question of temperature... In-Reply-To: <200101081942.OAA15636@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:16:11 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4855ba3a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Dan Cross wrote: > Yes, but Plan 9 is an operating system, seti@home is an application, > with a small and well-defined set of ``services'' (Actually, not really > services, but I'm too tired to think of a better word right now): get > a block, chunk away on it, send back a result. Plan 9 is, obviously, > far more open ended. To get the same set of services while hosted under > another OS and not compromising that OS or Plan 9, I'd probably have to > run it in some sort of virtual machine. Consider a system call; I could > trap it to, eg, Windows, but what do I do with rfork()? It's easier to > build a virtual machine than work with the existing OS. This is what > Inferno does. > > That's a pretty hefty screen saver. I didn't say anything about the app BEING a screensaver. You should up the meds. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------