On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:32 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, they do have a branch called "MicroSoft Research" that they seem > fond of putting money into. And apparently, a portion of that has > gone into making an Inferno/Plan 9 -equivalent, thus far dubbed, "MS > Singularity". Development has been going on for quite some time, it > seems. Think it'll outweigh what we have going with Plan 9?
This is unfair for two reasons. First, Microsoft Research does interesting research. Second, Singularity is a far cry from being the same as Inferno or Plan 9. It's an operating system, but that's the only real similarity. I suppose it uses a bytecode execution engine too, but that doesn't automatically make it like Inferno. They're very different and enabled very different research. Read the papers here and here http://research.microsoft.com/os/Singularity/ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ and then tell me why they are "equivalent". Russ
