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From: Leo Caves caves@yor...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Are the Infernospaces gone?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:21:26 GMT

does there exist a similar toolkit for plan9?

as plan9 is native, its deployment on an arbitrary network
would be more difficult than inferno (which could be hosted).

Such a "9spaces" interface would extend the chance of employing
"the plan9/inferno way" in a wider context.

Also, Alef has been ported away from the plan9 platform, 
eg. sgi smp machines.

Would a port of Alef, + a "9spaces" toolkit, provide a useful footprint
of these great ideas on other OSes (dare I say Linux), in an OS heterogeneous
network.

Or have I just reinvented inferno?


forsyth@cal... wrote:
> <snip>
> The most useful aspect of Infernospaces (from our point of view outside)
> was that it incorporated non-Inferno systems into an Inferno world
> without having to have them run Inferno.  
<snip>
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Leo Caves <mailto:caves@ysb...> 
Structural Biology Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry, University of York 
York, YO10 5DD, UK tel:(+44)1904 434521 fax:(+44)1904 410519