Re: [LEAPSECS] The Fuzzball

2017-01-10 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Sanjeev Gupta writes: > > >Parting Shot (quoted from the Paper): > >The ideal next-generation Fuzzball would be programmed in C, support the > >Unix run-time environment, TCP/IP and ISO protocol suites and contain no > >licensed code. >

Re: [LEAPSECS] The Fuzzball

2017-01-10 Thread Brooks Harris
We owe much to the pioneering work described in the article, and particularly to David Mills' contributions to computer timekeeping. On 2017-01-09 09:57 PM, Brooks Harris wrote: The Fuzzball https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/papers/fuzz.pdf Ah. PDP 11 running RT11 (the RT stands for r

Re: [LEAPSECS] The Fuzzball

2017-01-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Sanjeev Gupta writes: >Parting Shot (quoted from the Paper): >The ideal next-generation Fuzzball would be programmed in C, support the >Unix run-time environment, TCP/IP and ISO protocol suites and contain no >licensed code. Yeah, it's called "FreeBSD" :-) -- Poul-Henning

Re: [LEAPSECS] The Fuzzball

2017-01-09 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Brooks Harris wrote: > Ah. PDP 11 running RT11 (the RT stands for real-time, you know, and it > was!). Bigger and much heavier than a breadbox it had a lot of power. Oh, > wait, I mean it *used* a lot of power. And you could modify it with a > soldering iron and

[LEAPSECS] The Fuzzball

2017-01-09 Thread Brooks Harris
The Fuzzball https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/papers/fuzz.pdf Ah. PDP 11 running RT11 (the RT stands for real-time, you know, and it was!). Bigger and much heavier than a breadbox it had a lot of power. Oh, wait, I mean it *used* a lot of power. And you could modify it with a solderi