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While we're playing this, I wonder what might have become of Inferno had it been Open Sourced back when it was still potentially relevant: https://en.wikipedia
by msla 3y ago
While we're playing this, I wonder what might have become of Inferno had it been Open Sourced back when it was still potentially relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
TL;DR: The Unix people make a Java.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoWow, this one somehow passed me by, thanks for sharing!
- MisterTea 3y agoInferno is based on plan 9 (shares kernel code)with a user space that fully runs in the VM. However, it can run on very small systems like microcontrollers and someone is currently actively exploring this: https://dboddie.gitlab.io/inferno-diary/index.html https://dboddie.gitlab.io/inferno-diary/index.html
- sillywalk 3y agoInteresting question. I'm always curious at these other operating systems. I was a teen at the time, but in hindsight, in '96-97 'open source' from commercial vendors wasn't the norm, and Lucent finding income from openInferno would've been big change in business model. Java was meant to be familiar to C/C++ programmers, of which there were a lot. I'm not sure how Limbo would compare in terms of learning / productivity. And would there have been a Windows native "Inferno/Limbo" IDE type thing. (If there was one, please let me know) Inferno would've needed a killer app. I assume it'd perform better than Java, and at the time it would've competed with small Java applets. Java desktop didn't happen, I recall Corel trying and failing to port Word Perfect to Java. I don't know how if anybody ever tried to write an office suite in Limbo.