Re: K42 OS

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

As an employee of another company represented at SuperComputing 2003 I 
say
"hello" :)

As a person who has been "distantly interested" in K42 for the last 
year or so I ask
if its still 64bit only :).  If so I wonder if you have it working on 
the G5 yet as that is my only
64bit platform.

Dave
On Nov 20, 2003, at 7:36 AM, Michal Ostrowski wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a developer with the K42 project at IBM Research.  K42 is an
> experimental OS that attempts to explore radical changes in core OS
> structure; very much like the changes described on the dragonflybsd.org
> web site.
>
> From what we've seen, many of the ideas proposed for dragonflybsd are 
> quite
> similar to what we have implemented in K42, and naturally this makes us
> quite excited about the directions the dragonflybsd effort intends to
> take.  We'd be very interested in having ongoing interactions with
> this community to share ideas, experiences, horror stories and code.
>
> Consequently, I would like to invite members of this community to check
> out the K42 web-site http://www.research.ibm.com/K42 where we have
> numerous papers that describe our work.   Some of the papers that I 
> think
> are most relevant:
>
> An overview paper:
> http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/white-papers/Overview.pdf
>
> A paper describing how K42 provides traditional UNIX API's:
> http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/papers/freenix03.pdf
>
> A paper describing K42's threading and scheduling infrastructure:
> http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/white-papers/Scheduling.pdf
>
> Please bear in mind that K42 development is ongoing and consequently
> static papers may be out of date.  Nonetheless, these papers should be 
> an
> adequate starting point to understanding K42 and hopefully a 
> discussion of
> common interests and approaches.  I will be happy to answer
> any questions you may have.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michal Ostrowski
> mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx