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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:17:25 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Paul Lalonde wrote:

> And it gets even more interesting: Kutaragi-san seems to think we'll be able
> to run (and write) new OSes to run on the PS3:
> http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_6127219.html
> 
> Plan9 on a cheap and very effective piece of consumer electronics looks very
> possible this morning :-)

I heard a bit more today. Also, read the article carefully. Other OSes are 
in the context of the virtual machine. PS/3 OSes run in a VM environment. 

In other words, you can port an os but it will probably be running on the 
Sony hypervisor. 

So, get ready -- we'll probably need more Plan 9 interfaces to virtual 
machine environments. 

So, anybody want to help with Plan 9 port to Xen 3.0? 

:-)

Other good news: current claim is that on VT technology Pentiums you can 
run an unmodified OS!

ron