On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 08:16:40PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> I cannot find the reference (sorry), but I read an interview with Ken
> (Thompson) a while ago.
>
> He was asked what he would change if he where working on plan9 now,
> and his reply was somthing like "I would add support for cloud computing".
>
> I admin I am not clear exactly what he meant by this.
My interpretation of cloud computing is precisely the split done by
plan9 with terminal/CPU/FileServer: a UI runing on a this Terminal, with
actual computing done somewhere about data stored somewhere.
Perhaps tools for migrating tasks or managing the thing. But I have the
impression that the Plan 9 framework is the best for such a scheme.
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