Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Maciek Fijalkowski wrote: >> Greg Bowyer wrote: >>> Taking a look at this >>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311330&pgno=1&queryText= >>> >>> >>> >>> I wonder if the same could be done for pypy (this is just high level >>> thinking, nothing serious) >>> >>> >> Look at unununium project (dead for quite a while), they tried to >> have a python shell as a basic thing for an operating system and had >> quite a lot of nice concepts. Right now obvious approach would be to >> target some virtualised environment instead of hardware itself, so >> it's not something very new. There are questions what abstraction do >> you provide for hard drive, etc. etc. >> >> What pypy has unique here is RPython, which can easily map low level >> details onto high level. > > Yes, I kind of agree. IF you want to write an OS in Python then it > probably makes most sense to target some virtualized environment and > you might want to use RPython. Of course it depends very much what you > actually want :-). > > Cheers, > > Carl Friedrich > > :. > Come on, OS is an outdated concept.
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