will it be avail online, somehow? thanks.
> El 24 ene 2018, a las 10:16, Hugues Evrard <[email protected]> escribió: > > Hi all, > > On Thursday Feb. 1st (next week), Charles Forsyth will kindly give an > introduction talk to plan9 and inferno at Imperial College in London. If you > are in the London area, don't hesitate to join and to relay this announce! > Here is the abstract: > > Plan 9 and Inferno are two operating systems (originally developed by the > Bell Labs centre that produced Unix decades earlier). Both were designed to > allow systems to be composed from smaller cooperating systems performing > specific tasks. They provide structural support for distribution, at the > operating system level. Their defining novelty is the representation of all > distributable resources as hierarchical name spaces. There are conventional > names for certain resources, but no global name space. Instead, the kernel > provides operations that compose name spaces of local and remote resources, > at per-process granularity, to build a unique space to suit a given > application. That can aid design, development, testing and integration. I'll > give brief summaries of the two operating systems, and present examples of > their use, with an emphasis on naming. > > The talk is at 13:00-14:00 in amphitheatre 311 of the Huxley building, whose > entrance is at 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ. It is part of the iPr0gram > talk series ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/iPr0gram/ ), where people > external to Imperial College are warmly welcome, please just get in touch > with Robert ( https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rbc/ ) beforehand if you plan to join. > As most of you already know, Charles has made numerous contributions to plan9 > and inferno, and was instrumental in open-sourcing inferno. For more info, > check out his homepage: http://www.terzarima.net/ > Please get in touch with me if you would like to have a chat with Charles in > the afternoon, I can arrange a meeting room. > Thanks, > Hugues >
