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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:50:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0512131050v7bb4032cxc38f7c755197889b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c6bafeb2c3a70a2ac873b2b75a08955@coraid.com>

> > Some of the kernel core (i.e., the low-level assembly, the garbage
> > collector, the debugger) is written in unchecked languages,
> > but most of it (including, for example, the scheduler and all the
> > device drivers) is written in checked languages.  Safe device drivers
> > alone would fix a huge fraction of the Windows crashes.
>
> That's the Oberon part.

Some of that is true, but they do more checking than
Oberon, and they can verify the bytecodes they ship around
while Oberon could make no such guarantee about its binaries.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-13 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-13  7:02 Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13  7:13 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-12-13  8:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 15:04   ` Kenneth Long
2005-12-13 12:26 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-12-13 16:26   ` LiteStar numnums
2005-12-13 16:30     ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-13 16:39     ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-13 16:53       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 17:54       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 16:49     ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-13 16:57       ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-13 17:02         ` alexandr babic
2005-12-13 17:43           ` Russ Cox
2005-12-13 17:56             ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 20:19               ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 20:52                 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-14  2:12                   ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14  2:19                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 10:02                       ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14  4:01               ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-13 17:56             ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 18:07               ` alexandr babic
2005-12-14  0:02               ` Steve Simon
2005-12-14  9:42                 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 10:09                   ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-13 18:16             ` William Josephson
2005-12-13 20:46               ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 21:05                 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14  2:05                   ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 18:45             ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-13 18:50               ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-12-13 18:55                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-13 19:02                   ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14  6:30                     ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14  7:16                       ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 10:07                         ` Richard Miller
2005-12-13 20:49                   ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 22:09                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 21:20                       ` LiteStar numnums
2005-12-13 21:54                       ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 20:18             ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14  5:56             ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14  6:02               ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-14  9:50                 ` Steve Simon
2005-12-14  6:05               ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14  6:14                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14  9:28                 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14  7:29               ` Andriy G. Tereshchenko
2005-12-14 14:49               ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 10:11             ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 11:00               ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 12:47                 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-14 15:06               ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 16:20                 ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-14 22:00                   ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 17:14       ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 18:13         ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-14  3:05           ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-13 17:43       ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-12-13 18:04       ` Bakul Shah
2005-12-13 18:15         ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-13 20:04     ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14  5:02     ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 12:26       ` LiteStar numnums
     [not found] ` <000401c5ffe3$22447ce0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2005-12-13 13:01   ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2005-12-13 16:36     ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-14 15:42 Brian L.Stuart
2005-12-14 16:20 ` Paweł Lasek
2005-12-14 19:14 Brian L.Stuart
2005-12-14 20:06 Brian L.Stuart

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