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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:45:00 -0800
From: Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
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Chris Lattner wrote:

> This email is here to announce the availability of a port of ORBit (the
> GNOME ORB) to the Linux kernel.  This ORB, named kORBit, is available from
> our sourceforge web site (http://korbit.sourceforge.net/).  A kernel ORB
> allows you to write kernel extensions in CORBA and have the kernel call
> into them, or to call into the kernel through CORBA.  This opens the door
> to a wide range of experiments/hacks:
> 
> * We can now write device drivers in perl, and let them run on the iMAC
>   across the hall from you. :)

Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl???

-b

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