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The beauty of Inferno is that one of the incarnations happens to be an operating system that runs on bare metal. But the very same code can be run as a command
by SixSigma 12y ago
The beauty of Inferno is that one of the incarnations happens to be an operating system that runs on bare metal. But the very same code can be run as a command line program in Windows / OpenBSD / OSX / Linux. Or as a multi-windowed program like an MDI or a single window, or a full screen window in kiosk mode, or as a network service on IBM's Blue Gene.
Inferno is used by IBM, NASA, Alcatel-Lucent, the US DoD.
- xorcist 12y agoWasn't there a JavaOS as well at some stage? Or at least planned?
- SixSigma 12y agoSun even made Java cpu's / appliances These days there's http://www.azulsystems.com/products/vega/overview http://www.azulsystems.com/products/vega/overview Bruce Ellis (one of the people who created Mark V Shaney) and one of the original Inferno developers until it was sold, has been working on a Verilog cpu to execute DIS natively but still no prototype. One of the beauties of Inferno is it will run on a platform with no hardware MMU. And the Styx protocol means it can do great things easily. It has even had servers running on Logo Mindstorm.
- stonogo 12y ago> Inferno is used by IBM, NASA, Alcatel-Lucent, the US DoD. Where?