From: Dylan Evans <dylan.star@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T11:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Eleanor McHugh <
eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:

> On 4 Jun 2009, at 14:49, Dylan Evans wrote:
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>  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.
>>
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> You can already run Ruby on top of MS-DOS so in a sense the experiment has
> been done.
>

Yes, but just the interpreter, from there you could set up a multi tasking
environment, somewhat like how win 9x worked, and because ms-dos is fairly
trivial it wouldn't be a huge leap to writing device drivers in ruby.





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> Eleanor McHugh
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