Re: Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/05/17 13:45, Justus Winter wrote: Samuel Thibault writes: Though there was some work, a reimplementation if memory serves, of the netmsg servers. The archive should have some infos on that. Yes, by Brent who was the instigator of the original thread that I was belatedly commenting t

Re: Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-21 Thread Justus Winter
Samuel Thibault writes: > Justus Winter, on dim. 21 mai 2017 15:39:07 +0200, wrote: >> Samuel Thibault writes: >> >> > Mark Morgan Lloyd, on sam. 20 mai 2017 12:18:01 +, wrote: >> >> Finally, what is the Hurd portability situation? Way back I worked on a >> >> microkernel in '386 protected

Re: Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, on dim. 21 mai 2017 15:39:07 +0200, wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > Mark Morgan Lloyd, on sam. 20 mai 2017 12:18:01 +, wrote: > >> Finally, what is the Hurd portability situation? Way back I worked on a > >> microkernel in '386 protected mode that used segmentation heavi

Re: Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-21 Thread Justus Winter
Samuel Thibault writes: > Mark Morgan Lloyd, on sam. 20 mai 2017 12:18:01 +, wrote: >> Finally, what is the Hurd portability situation? Way back I worked on a >> microkernel in '386 protected mode that used segmentation heavily, am I >> correct in assuming that that sort of thing is completel

Re: Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mark Morgan Lloyd, on sam. 20 mai 2017 12:18:01 +, wrote: > Finally, what is the Hurd portability situation? Way back I worked on a > microkernel in '386 protected mode that used segmentation heavily, am I > correct in assuming that that sort of thing is completely deprecated in the > interest

Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Please excuse my raising my head above the parapet, most of the time I'm a lurker but I prefer the idea of a robustly-partitioned system and I think the industry-wide events of the last week or so reinforce that. >> [Brent said] The payoff is a supercomputer operating system that >> presents an