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>"Way back in the late 90’s from the University of Utah there was this fantastic project that promised to bring Operating System construction to mere mortals bu
by peter_d_sherman 6y ago
>"Way back in the late 90’s from the University of Utah there was this fantastic project that promised to bring Operating System construction to mere mortals but taking existing PC operating systems, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and break them down to their best components, and then interlink them using COM allowing you to glue the best parts together like lego.
And the project was called OSKit.
It was fantastic for something unknown at the time for creating so called ‘bare metal programs’ that didn’t have a real operating system, but rather could use operating features like LIBC, or the EXT2 filesystem."
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>"I was kind of surprised it never really took off, maybe
it was too far ahead of it’s time."
- Hydraulix989 6y agoFrom a business perspective, why use this for your startup when you can just throw everything into Chrome browsers by writing JS with Electron? Bare metal isn’t necessary in nearly all cases. To wit, this project didn’t take off.
- pjmlp 6y agoI guess everyone is too busy redoing CORBA and DCOM with gRPC nowadays, to pick on the COM's reference.