On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Pontus Lidman wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Not to imply that just because something is written in assembler means > > > that it's always smaller and faster, but, it's written entirely in > > > assembler! Of course it'd be small and fast. :) > > Written entirely in assembler? Sounds a bit difficult to port...
Hence fiasco :) <snip> > > IMHO we'd be better off with Fiasco (written in C++ (which is kindof a > > downer), but GPL, and more portable). > > I'd like to make a pitch then for Fluke which seems to descend from Mach > so porting the Hurd might be easier than to other microkernels. It's also > GPL. And I like the Recursive Virtual Machine idea. URL? > Maybe you guys could provide URL's to L4 / Fiasco so I could have a look > at those? http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/ has links to L4 (fiasco implements the L4 API) Matthew

