>My impressions of Inferno are that it seems to not be about the VM or even 
>Limbo 
>per se, but those as a means to the end of making the Plan9 concepts more 
>easily 
>integrated with, and propagated to, the 'rest of the world'

it's a decent modular, concurrent programming language (ie, Limbo)
and the same environment everywhere providing a name space interface with the 
file service protocol
(the Plan 9 concepts) to things other systems make `special'.
the virtual machine is possibly less important: it's mainly a mechanism for 
easy portability
and easy run-time code generation but could be replaced by another scheme.

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