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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:35:11 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:22:05 +0200 (MET DST)
Niklas Elmqvist<d97elm@dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Darrin Hyrup wrote:
>> A driver should act like the kernel of an OS.
> Amen to that. Mirrors exactly my thinking. OS design is a good
> source of inspiration.
Utterly serious suggestion:
Start with the kernel for a very light weight pre-emptive OS (one
of the microkernel designs or Sys7-style small systems) and then
build from there, replacing the filesystem with a transparent DB
structure, the shell with a world-view, and then have more classical
"shells" and scripting languages as child programs from there.
BTW: This is a moderately accurate description of Shades in its
early days.
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