interesting, i have never seen that presentation. my day job involves a microservice based system using Nats and speaking to typescript ui.
this could be an interpretation of these ideas. -Steve > On 21 Mar 2026, at 10:56 pm, Stuart Morrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Protium ran on the iPaq. It was a way to write programs that have the > sam/samterm split. It was never released. > > https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/252/645/protium_an_infrastructure_for_partitioned_applications.pdf > >> On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 at 01:48, hiro <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> i have never received my ipaq, where do i sign up? >> note the term "distributed", otherwise i'd agree... >> unless you can tell me what special services one could access in the plan9 >> manner in a distributed way... >> was it using GPRS? was it netbooting over GPRS? >> or did you make many small mounts for hand-selected applications so that >> latency wouldn't block the whole system? >> what's the trick? >> >>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 6:03 PM Bruce Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That's not true. Consider the iPaq port. >>> >>> brucee >>> >>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2026, 1:21 am hiro via 9fans, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> we generally expect the reliability of an always-on ethernet connection. >>>> >>>> you'd have to change a lot of basic assumptions in the OS to make it >>>> distributed but with unstable mobile (or usb based) links >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 11:10 AM davidaforshaw via 9fans <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dipping toes into 9, so please forgive my ignorance. >>>>> Given the current state of android, windows, etc, as phone OS's. >>>>> >>>>> I recognise 9, is very legacy orientated currently, with minimal apps. >>>>> >>>>> But, is there potential for it, as a distributed OS for tablet devices >>>>> such as phones, with light weight processors connected to home based >>>>> grids for computing performance. >>>>> >>>>> As the phone, facilities can basically be separated from the, computing >>>>> ones via hardware separation? >>>>> >>>>> I suspect, this may have been suggested before, so if you could point me >>>>> to appropriate documents I would appreciate it. >>>>> >> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3ea7cf6e23ff2463-M2d2c9a7e55fb6af7ddd6394f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
