From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T22:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS

On 5 Jun 2009, at 03:58, Dylan Evans wrote:
> 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:
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.

I'm not sure it would even be that difficult - at least in principle -  
to write device drivers for unix in Ruby as ruby/dl gives you memory  
buffers and callbacks. However my DD experience is on other operating  
systems that get in your way less (like OS/9) so there are probably  
kernel interface complexities that I'm overlooking. Might be a fun  
experiment to look into though if I can find the time.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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