I see. Thanks for the edification :-) I found--still find--it hard to
understand what Inferno is/does. Actually read
<http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/bltj.html> but it isn't very
direct about what it is that Inferno does for a user or what a user can do
with it; what distinguishes it from other (operating?) systems. I've
decided to try it because documentation says it will readily run on Windows.
As a side note, I found a short passage in the Inferno paper that confirmed
something I had pointed out previously on this list in almost identical
wording (and been ridiculed for):
The Styx protocol lies above and is independent of the communications
transport layer; it is readily carried over TCP/IP, PPP, ATM or various
modem transport protocols.
--On Friday, April 17, 2009 11:47 AM +0200 [email protected] wrote:
I don't know what Inferno is but the phrase 'virtual machine' appears
somewhere in the product description. Isn't Inferno the 'it' you're
searching for?
No, Inferno resembles - very superficially, as you will discover if
you study the literature - a JAVA interpreter surrounded by its own
operating system. There are so many clever things about Inferno, it
is hard to do it justice. But it is not a virtualiser. More's the
pity, of course. A virtualiser with Inferno's good features would be
a very useful device.
Actually, I have long had a feeling that there is a convergence of
VNC, Drawterm, Inferno and the many virtualising tools (VMware, Xen,
Lguest, etc.), but it's one of these intuition things that I cannot
turn into anything concrete.
++L
