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Inferno Dead

Inferno
KindOperating system
Appeared1996
StatusDead
CreatorBell Labs / Vita Nuova
FamilyIndependent
Platformvarious, hosted or native
Sourcewww.vitanuova.com ↗

Plan 9's little sibling with a VM inside — Limbo language, Dis VM, applications portable across everything; sold to Vita Nuova, then faded.

Created by Bell Labs

Inferno (1996) was Bell Labs' post-Plan-9 experiment — a portable OS running as an application on any host, with the Limbo language, Dis VM, and the same 'everything is a file' namespace over a 4 MB runtime.\n\nCommercialized by Lucent's Inferno Business Unit, it never found a market; released as open source in 2000, maintained by Vita Nuova.

Sources

  1. vitanuova.com/inferno/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)