From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net From: Hugues Evrard Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:16:49 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------992033BDBDCD8CEB51716AA9" Subject: [9fans] Talk by Charles Forsyth on Feb 1st at Imperial College London, 13:00 -14:00 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb07e5d8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------992033BDBDCD8CEB51716AA9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=E2=80=99s 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 --------------992033BDBDCD8CEB51716AA9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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 ar= e 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=C2=A0of 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=E2=80=99s Gate, London SW7 2= AZ. It is part of the iPr0gram talk series ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/iPr0gram/ ), where peopl= e external to Imperial College are warmly welcome, please just get in touch with Robert ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/ ) beforehand if you pla= n 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

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