barrelfish

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:57 am

Another operating system:

http://www.barrelfish.org/

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:19 am

... being built from scratch... and ...exploring... typically indicate we will never see anything beyond proof of concept... especially if one of the parties involved is called... MicroSoft...

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:52 am

blueznl wrote:... being built from scratch... and ...exploring... typically indicate we will never see anything beyond proof of concept... especially if one of the parties involved is called... MicroSoft...

MS did wonders with Singularity. Paul Barham, Tim Harris and Rebecca Isaacs all worked on Singularity and are now working on Barrelfish. I am expecting good things to come out of this

GWarner · Post by **GWarner** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:22 pm

Whenever I hear of a new operating system I think back to when Microsoft handed IBM a golden opportunity to take over the operating system dominance and IBM in their utter stupidity did nothing more than a few half hearted ads.

Had IBM's world famous marketing team been on the ball or allowed to do it's job, IBM would have owned Microsoft, lock, stock, and barrel and Windows would just be a footnote in history.

OS/2 was a damn fine operating system, it's such a pity IBM fucked it up so bad on the marketing end.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:47 pm

I think we are missing the most important point of this entire thread here:
Why is Nemo in the barrell???

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:00 pm

Because of