From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:44:39 -0800 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 36734cfa-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:32 AM, wrote: > Well, they do have a branch called "MicroSoft Research" that they seem > fond of putting money into. And apparently, a portion of that has > gone into making an Inferno/Plan 9 -equivalent, thus far dubbed, "MS > Singularity". Development has been going on for quite some time, it > seems. Think it'll outweigh what we have going with Plan 9? This is unfair for two reasons. First, Microsoft Research does interesting research. Second, Singularity is a far cry from being the same as Inferno or Plan 9. It's an operating system, but that's the only real similarity. I suppose it uses a bytecode execution engine too, but that doesn't automatically make it like Inferno. They're very different and enabled very different research. Read the papers here and here http://research.microsoft.com/os/Singularity/ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ and then tell me why they are "equivalent". Russ