Thank you, I thought you might be exaggerating until I saw the Fox Project web page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fox/
Sadly I can't find fluxkit. It sometimes seems like history is written by Google and Wikipedia. Doing a literature review is expensive and time consuming. > Computer science is the discipline of reinvention. Until everyone who knows how >to write 10 lines of code has invented a programming language and solved the >Halting Problem, nothing will be settled :-) I don't blame them, this computing stuff is like magic and it's hard not to get excited. Kind regards Stephen On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 at 15:44, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > > In the late 90s, all of us had a FluxKit image on our laptops that would > boot PLT Scheme on the raw machine. Matthew, with help from the Flux > people, put it together in a relatively short time. I am sure more could > have done with that, but we went in different directions. > > At Strange Loop I saw a talk from the first group. It was mostly about the > networking part of the OS, the TCP stack. Strangely enough, the presenter > did not know anything about the Fox project at CMU, which had done all of > this in the mid 90s, following the X project from UofA. > > Computer science is the discipline of reinvention. Until everyone who > knows how to write 10 lines of code has invented a programming language and > solved the Halting Problem, nothing will be settled :-) > > > > > > > On Feb 24, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <spdegabrie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > Has anyone ever done a racket machine image like: > > • Mirage https://mirage.io > > • LING/Erlang on Xen http://erlangonxen.org > > • Rumprum https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun > > > > I heard a podcast and recently saw an old presentation [1] that was > interesting. I'm interested, but never had the motivation to do something > like LinuxFromScratch. > > > > Stephen > > > > > > [1] > https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/AnilMadhavapeddy/mirage-ml-kernels-in-the-cloud-ml-workshop-2010 > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
