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RE: Bootstrapping.
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
I beg to differ. The BeOS tools are still alive, and well. Surf over to
ftp://planetmirror.com and look inside the folders for BeOS.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu [mailto:owner-oskit-
> users@fast.cs.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Grimes
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:26 PM
> To: oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu
> Subject: Bootstrapping.
>
> I'm trying to bootstrap my design for a system oriented OS and am
slowly
> coming to grips with the incredible challenges that intails.
>
> I downloaded Oskit into a beos partition but I have no working
> development system on that OS.
>
> DOS is indestructable but the problems remain the same.
>
> The hardest part of the project seems to involve my ideas about
dynamic
> execution environments which seem to have been totally ignored by all
> present programming languages, which assume the environment to be an
> immutable constant.
>
> Deploying a new loader if not an entire new binutils suite is
> nightmarish.
>
> Another feature of the OS is that not only is the API segmented into
> seperately loadable modules, but also these modules can be loaded and
> unloaded at any time for any reason. I have some ideas about the
> operating system level mechanisms required to support this but
actually
> implementing an ABI specification is a whole nother issue...
>
> Not only does it require runtime linking, but also link-on-demand,
that
> may occour any number of times througout the indifinite execution time
> of an important subsystem.
>
> A system oriented OS is a whole lot more than the pathetic process
model
> presented by Linux and will require me to rewite significant parts of
> whatever compiler I use... =\
>
> --
> DOS LIVES! MWAHAHAHAHA
> http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ <my website.
>
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