Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene 190
gholmer writes "Eric Van Hensbergen reports that Plan 9 has been successfully booted on IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. A live demo will be attempted during a poster session at this year's Usenix. There is also the obligatory Space Glenda picture."
Yeah but... (Score:3, Funny)
Plan 9? (Score:1, Funny)
Ah, yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Long distance electrodes shot into the pineal and pituitary gland of the recently dead."
Re:Plan 9? (Score:1, Funny)
About the plan (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Am I the only one that thought of this Plan 9? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah but... (Score:1, Funny)
No, Microsoft is trying to get Vista running on Intel hardware first.
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You see that, your stupid minds! (Score:3, Funny)
When you've got solamanite, you've got nothing!
(Yeah, its one of my fave movies)
Re:About the plan (Score:5, Funny)
Is this a well disguised troll? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure I'm ready to check out any "graphical" items called scat.
So, you take a SuperComputer and... (Score:2, Funny)
...turn it into a Sinclair ZX81 to prove that it can be done?
What's next? ReactOS on a Cray?
Re:Plan 9? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is this a well disguised troll? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Plan 9? (Score:4, Funny)
ED IS THE STANDARD EDITOR, HERETIC (Score:3, Funny)
!man ed
ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed { - } { -x } { name }
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which:
1. Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG;
2. reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and
3. RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
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help
?
?
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quit
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exit
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bye
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hello?
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eat flaming death
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^C
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^C
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^D
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Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
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Re:About the plan (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No sale (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yeah but... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pretty cool (Score:5, Funny)
Pictures of Space Glenda (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Plan 9? (Score:3, Funny)