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Title is a bit misleading this seams mainly like a form of shell, comparing it to Torvals linux kernel or unix seams wierd. As a shell however i feel it is a i

Title is a bit misleading this seams mainly like a form of shell, comparing it to Torvals linux kernel or unix seams wierd. As a shell however i feel it is a interesting change of perspective.

sparkie 12y ago
The shell is what you see, but there's a full OS underneath it, including a window manager and whatnot. You can reprogram any part of the OS dynamically from this shell, which is the main point Terry is trying to make - it's an OS aimed at hackers who he thinks should have 100% control over the system down to the hardware - and he has a novel way of enabling that to happen with an interpreter and JIT compiler for his dialect of C, and a single memory space for all "processes".
- pjmlp 12y ago
  That "novel" idea was common in Xerox PARC machines.
  - sparkie 12y ago
    I didn't claim the idea was novel, only that Davis's implementation is novel. The idea of a single address space operating system which can be modified while it's running is older than unix.
    - pjmlp 12y ago
      I misunderstood it then.
- callesgg 12y ago
  I got that there was an OS underneath but i don't see how that matters. As you could do the same in unix if you had a shell/api that hooked in at the right place.