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The WorldWide Computer article ...

 [1/2] from: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 12-Feb-2002 22:22


Hi, thanks to Eugenia and OSNews I got link to following article - they are imo talking Rebol IOS and they have one typo there - they call possible os ISOS :-) http://www.sciam.com/2002/0302issue/0302anderson.html We will get there - sooner or later ... -pekr-

 [2/2] from: chalz:earthlink at: 15-Feb-2002 1:25


I know I'm late getting to my email, but.. Funny thing you should post this, Petr. I receive a couple of the Lockergnome newsletters (good stuff, in my opinion - http://www.lockergnome.com/ ), and in the Tech Specialist newsletter from ~0630 EST on 02/12 (note the date - spooky), there was this article. I replied back to the author (of Tech Specialist) mentioning REBOL's IOS. OS of the Future http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68143,00.html Imagine computers in a group providing disk storage for their users, transparently swapping files and optimizing their collective performance, all with no central administration. But the machines providing this pool of virtual storage dare not trust one another completely. Indeed, a hacker takes over one of them and ruthlessly begins attacking others in the group. But not to worry. Thanks to an experimental operating system technology called Byzantine fault-tolerant protocols, users and their data are protected. That scenario is part of the Farsite project at Microsoft Corp. Farsite is just one of several projects at Microsoft Research and other labs around the world that will render operating systems all but unrecognizable in 10 years. Farsite embodies several characteristics-such as fault tolerance, self-tuning and robust security-that will distinguish operating systems of the future.