Meeting Reminder - 07/15/98 -- BLU Inferno in A/C Comfort!

[guybz at world.std.com (Guy W Bzibziak)]

Local - Boston, MA - 07/15/98 BLU.ORG - Plan 9 to Inferno

Keywords: Linux  Unix  OS  Networking  AT&T Plan 9  Inferno

July 15, 1998 :: Wednesday :: 7:00 p.m.
Topic: From AT&T's Plan 9 to Lucent Technologies' Inferno
Presented by: Ted Kochanski, Ph.D. (tpk at sensorsys.com)
Location: MIT Building 1-390 -- the Bechtel Lecture Hall
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Ted Kochanski presents a technology overview of Lucent Technologies'
"Inferno", a network operating system an programming environment for
delivering content in a rich environment of heterogenous networks,
clients, and servers.  Inferno is derived from Plan 9, enabling (among
other things) interactive cable television-set top boxes to connect
with video-on-demand servers seamlessly.

Dennis Ritchie and his colleagues concieved this new network operating
system based upon multiple layers of abstraction and christened it
"Inferno" -- after the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante.

This presentation is based on Dr. Kochanski's experiences with using
Inferno to network interactive devices, such as retail kiosks with
local and remote information servers.

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The Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG], is the successor to the Boston
Computer Society's Linux & Unix User Group. We want to promote the
awareness and use of Open Systems, and to educate the public and our
members about Open Systems.

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.
>From its inception less than eight years ago, it was developed over the
Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen
each other, and now runs on over (estimated) 2,500,000 computer systems.
The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone
who wants it. It has been ported to at least the following platforms:
Intel, SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, and M68K. This is probably the largest
development project ever accomplished using the Internet.

 
For the latest information on this presentation, please see the URL:

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