> but because I found some of your statements compelling enough to > warrant further consideration.
This is creepy... I go from a "Oh that's nice, whatever" to a "Now that is interesting!" in what seems like me to be only a few days. This is is very supprising to me. =P > Specifically, I looked over your document entitled "The Design and > function of the Sphere Operatign System". I think you could be on to > some very useful with your Sphere OS (although I'm not entirely clear > on the implementation of the multi-tasking). There are two general ways to do it. The first is to program the entire thing with implicitly paralell languages where things are run whenever they are needed. Such a system would be written in a lisp or prolog like language that expresses very abstract relationships that run whenever they are needed. A more conventional programming model would be basically multithreaded but it does some really strange stuff. I have been refining the thread model in the past few days as I have been considering the design of a prototype. A detailed explaination would not be appropriate for this list, not to mention being quite lengthy! I might write a paper on it. I have a number of open writing projects at the moment so I probably won't even start the paper unless I'm prodded. > And please don't take this the wrong way, but I did have a problem in > reading your document. Yes I'm aware of the problems with that. There was a revised version but it got zeroed by a bunch of idiots who telneted into my Be setup and thought it would be fun to tecah me a lesson... I do have a hardcopy that is a little better but it would take me a while to reconcile the two. Since the OS project is still officially inactive I'm not going to bother with it until I see an opportunity to move forward. -- I WANT A DEC ALPHA!!! =) 21364: THE UNDISPUTED GOD OF ALL CPUS. http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ [if rcn.com doesn't work, try erols.com ] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
