From: Chris Gehlker Date: 2002-02-20T13:55:59+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby booting? On 2/19/02 8:58 PM, "John Wheeler" wrote: > Chris Moore wrote: > >> This is gonna sound crazy but how hard would it be to make ruby boot as >> something of a microkernel? Add some device drivers and a filesystem and >> some kind of console (the built in shell?) and you're halfway to a >> script based OS... just a thought me and a friend had... >> >> The next step is making file management tools, an editor, etc. >> >> Any thoughts? >> > > Not crazy at all. The last time I looked some Sun machines boot up > speaking a native version of the Forth language before the OS loads. Ah the glories of OpenFirmware. It's not just Suns that use it. So do Macs and at least some of the ThinkPads. A Ruby variant of OpenFirmware would indeed be cool. -- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)