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there's no particularly interesting ideas in it I sorta agree. I particularly would like to see operating systems implemented using JIT compilation and softwa

by glassx 15y ago

there's no particularly interesting ideas in it I sorta agree. I particularly would like to see operating systems implemented using JIT compilation and software isolation. Managed code running safely on the ring0 of the processor. Microsoft Singularity started this but I'd like to see the open source people trying something like that! I really think we need processor/architecture independency if we really want to achieve freedom.

p9idf 15y ago
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_operating_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_operating_system
prodigal_erik 15y ago
Sadly, neither JNode (Java) nor House (Haskell) look very active. I keep thinking I should start something though I'm sure there are hundreds of embryonic kernels out there already.
wslh 15y ago
SqueakNOS? http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762 http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762
derleth 15y ago
> I particularly would like to see operating systems implemented using JIT compilation and software isolation. Managed code running safely on the ring0 of the processor. Lisp Machines were arguably like this, except with microcode instead of JIT. AS/400 (IBM midrange systems, now called System i) does something like this as well, except the whole program is compiled from bytecode to machine code on first run, or whenever the bytecode on disk is newer than the machine code on disk. The biggest change is that you have either a trusted compiler, a garbage collector in the kernel, or both.