barrelfish
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:57 am
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Posted: 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...
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:52 am
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 thisblueznl 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...
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: 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???
Why is Nemo in the barrell???
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:00 pm
Because of
