[93160] in Cypherpunks
plan 9 features (Re: autonomous agents (fwd))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Tue Jan 13 20:14:45 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:33:14 GMT
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: ravage@ssz.com
CC: cypherpunks@ssz.com
In-reply-to: <199801122044.OAA22802@einstein.ssz.com> (message from Jim Choate
on Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:44:46 -0600 (CST))
Reply-To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> writes:
> > Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> > > [autonomous agents, markets for CPU time, disk, comms]
>
> Has anyone done any work that you are aware of under the Plan 9 os?
> With it's fundamental seperation of i/o, process, and file servers
> along with it's inherent bidding/scheduling mechanism it seems to me
> that a lot of this work has already been done. In addition there are
> programs that allow Linux boxes to participate as Plan 9 compliant
> file servers.
Sounds interesting. I am not familiar with plan 9 besides the
enthusings of a colleague reminiscing about the work done at York
Univ, UK with plan 9.
Java has a lot going for it as a candidate due to portability and code
distribution support. I think the only thing missing from java is the
bidding and scheduling mechanisms. Your other forwarded message on
plan 9 looks interesting also.
Adam
