Maciek Fijalkowski wrote: > 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 Come on, OS is an outdated concept. > > Cheers, > fijal > > > :. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > I was thinking the selling point might be RPython
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