From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:21:26 -0600 From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: alef on sources In-Reply-To: <042101c44390$5dc0bb00$067f7d50@SOMA> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8af0d452-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 27 May 2004, boyd, rounin wrote: > > Well despite dire warning of redundancy, buggyness, and half-bakery, I > > will be looking at the Alef sources with some relish. > > methinks that limbo would give a greater payoff. yesh. This kind of reminds me of porting Plan 9 to dead things like the SPARC, except that it's a port a a dead thing to a live system. We need to get the live + live thing going somehow. ron p.s. BTW: I just booted Plan 9 under Xen far enough to have it instantly kill itself (voluntarily). This is progress. No, really, I mean it ;-)