Someone who knows more about OS's will need to chime in about what you'd need here, but it might be worth pointing out that most people in the Julia community use the word kernel to refer to a mathematical concept that's not related to OS's. So Toivo and Dahua's code isn't related to OS's in any way.
-- John On Mar 19, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Collin Glass <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to Julia, although already addicted :). My imagination does outweigh > my understanding for now but I wanted to know why it wouldn't be possible to > right an Operating System, or at least a very small one in Julia. Noted by > Tim holy in this post: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/gui/julia-users/PakwjAB-14s/tEpBkGf-KgwJ > > I was looking around a little bit before finding that post and I found this > dated package: https://github.com/toivoh/julia-kernels > > I contacted Toivo and he said the package was likely dated now and pointed me > to devectorized Julia code to do this: > https://github.com/lindahua/Devectorize.jl > > My vision is to write something equivalent to this to start: > http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/ > > My first question is can it be done? If it can then I want to open up this > feed to discussions on the design. Or maybe if it can't, will this ever be in > the scope of Julia. > > Any resources or rants would be great!
