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AFIK Inferno was a corporate reaction to Java and intended to be an actual competing product. Plan 9 development was halted for nearly a whole year as the team
by MisterTea 6y ago
AFIK Inferno was a corporate reaction to Java and intended to be an actual competing product. Plan 9 development was halted for nearly a whole year as the team focused on building Inferno.
- young_unixer 6y ago'Inferno' sounds pretty aggressive for something in the corporate market.
- butterisgood 6y agoInferno as in Dante’s Inferno. The VM is called dis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)) The language is Limbo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo The protocol is Styx - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx The Divine Comedy all over the place.
- mrighele 6y agoAnd I guess that the name of the company, Vita Nuova, comes from Dante's "La Vita Nuova" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova
- gcblkjaidfj 6y ago> Inferno was a corporate reaction to Java they even had a inferno-applet demo, which was a full VM in an activeX(?) container running on the browser.
- octetta 6y agoIt was pretty cool. I did a few capability demos for my team back in 2000 using the IE plugin + Limbo + Tk stuff as a replacement for some really bad Perl configuration tools, but could never get any momentum with it. Wish I (and the plan9/Inferno) people were better salespeople.