On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:59:11PM -0700, Dr. Yasha Karant wrote: > 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?
As long as the development keeps open (which is often not the case with university projects and I really don't like that) and the code is free, I say: Cool! Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
