Joaquim,

I discussed the option below during the BOCHS era but was declined.

A number of faculty in the CS community can organize student projects
to "finish" Plex86.  There are a variety of pedagogical justifications
for the work.

The practical impetus to do this is not as great as it once was due to
VMWare.  I realize that VMWare is a very much overpriced product, and
that VMWare came about as a university faculty spin-off (from Stanford).

Would the Plex86 community be willing to permit this to happen?  The
work would result in both internal publications/presentations at
the participating departments and probably some submissions to regular
journals/conferences.   Moreover, we would attempt to make the basic
design (not the details of the implementation) portable to IA-64 because
that will be the next great push of the monopoly, after .NET .

Thoughts?

Yasha Karant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 
> There was a time I started thinking that some Microsoft employee was
> in control of this list and he was doing his best to stop plex86 development.
> 
> Now I believe this is not the case but we're just a bunch of useless guys.
> 
> We must all stop pretending to be programmers, pretending to be 
> interested and pretending that we care.
> 
> We must find someone with spare time to work on plex86 or this project
> will die.
> 
> It's unbelievable that we all find time to discuss and irrelevant questions 
> and no one writes a single line of plex86 code.
> 
> This list is not to discuss the list itself but to do work on plex86.
> 
> Are we STUPID or what?
> 
> Regards,
> Joaquim Carvalho
> 
> 
> 


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