[PRL] Re: Singularity project at MS

[John Clements]

On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Carl Eastlund wrote:

> On 12/9/05, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>> On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Paul A. Steckler wrote:
>>
>>>> It has been on my reading list for a week or so. When I read the
>>>> abstract, I thought I was re-reading the Matthew-Olin-Druschel- 
>>>> me ITR
>>>> proposal from 99/00. -- Matthias
>>>
>>> Is Singularity a Lisp Machine in a C#, OO guise?
>>
>> Um... you forgot the "only runs on Windows" part, unless I miss my
>> guess.
>
> Huh?  No, Singularity only runs on Singularity.  It's an OS.

Yikes, egg on my face, eh?  Okay, would you settle for "probably  
won't run, sandboxed or otherwise, on my PowerPC-based mac." ?

FWIW, I'm guessing that sandboxed is the only way that this OS will  
run for quite some time, esp. given their assertions that it's a  
research project and not a consumer project.

John

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