> What one wants is Plan 9 as a > model for what may be a family of hardware APIs. It makes sense to > promote massive parallelism, but the API to it should be sufficiently > simple for a single individual to manage. >
This is the what I wonder about. Is this possible at the hardware level and still support an equally simple, understandable, yet capable, software system on top? By extension, would Plan 9 would run on such a system or if it would require some fundamental changes to adapt to it. For example, does C really need to be thrown out or can it be revised. > Most computing devices today are single-user, even those like my new > Android phone that offer shared user capabilities. Incidentally, the > authorisation model in this case is inadequate for my purpose (share > with a pre-teen). > I am in this boat too, however I have a general aversion to cloud computing and so I would need some household multi-user systems for data storage and heavy processing tasks or some distributed equivalent. > So we have layers and we need the complexity to be shoved into > well-tested, sealed boxes that can be trusted, while the surface > remains as simple as 9P. > My trouble is that I don't trust the sealed boxes anymore after Meltdown, Spectre, Rowhammer, etc. Perhaps simple and auditable hardware might help with this.
