From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T00:58:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS

On 4 Jun 2009, at 14:49, Dylan Evans wrote:
> A peek inside the mind of a genius. Why not use existing code and  
> increase
> your chances of success? You will have to use binary at some level,  
> and if
> you did want to use ruby to write kernel modules you could perhaps  
> build
> on a microkernel (maybe minix) where the system is made up of daemons
> running in user space.

Minix has a few shortcomings, but in general this approach is doable.  
A better choice of kernel though would probably be NetBSD thanks to  
the large number of hardware platforms that it supports.

> Actually a simple way to prototype the system would be to run it in  
> ms-dos
> which is as near to no operating system as you can get anyway.

You can already run Ruby on top of MS-DOS so in a sense the experiment  
has been done.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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