<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Interesting project: port libm3core to NT or Linux kernel, so drivers for those systems can be written in Modula-3. Then show how it is both safe & efficient & portable.</div><div><br></div><div>But better yet is to provide for user mode drivers..<br><br></div><div>?</div><div><br></div><div> - Jay (phone<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">)</span></div><div><br>On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Dragiša Durić <<a href="mailto:dragisha@m3w.org">dragisha@m3w.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The best idea for non-C in operating systems, it looks to me - is to make it possible to do framework things like network protocol, device driver, filesystem - in said non-C.<div><br><div><div>On Dec 4, 2011, at 2:03 AM, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Either way, please remember, that some of the critical parts of an operating<br>system are drivers, and their surrounding framework.<br>There are some less-driver related aspects, like a file system, a networking stack, a scheduler.<br>It is a lot of work. A lot.</span></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></body></html>