[M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel

[Jay]

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.

But better yet is to provide for user mode drivers..

?

 - Jay (phone)

On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> On Dec 4, 2011, at 2:03 AM, Jay K wrote:
> 
>> Either way, please remember, that some of the critical parts of an operating
>> system are drivers, and their surrounding framework.
>> There are some less-driver related aspects, like a file system, a networking stack, a scheduler.
>> It is a lot of work. A lot.
> 
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