On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 04:19:38PM +0000, Read, James C wrote:
The more I look into this the more I start to think that I wasn't being extreme enough when I decided it would be easier to build my OS than play around with everyone else's. It now seems what I should have decided was to build my own hardware and then after that the OS design would be a far simpler affair.
Just to give you an idea: I started a project along those lines about 15 years ago, I.E. building a computer and writing the OS to go with it. The first two hardware designs had to be scrapped, because they became obviously obsolete before I even got them finished. What little of the OS I actually wrote, (in assembler), ended up being converted to X86 assembler, and used as the basis for an OS on commodity hardware. That project has now been shelved and parts of the code re-used in a completely different project that is just designed to run as a user process on OpenBSD, which I'm still working on. I've realised that any home-brew computer that I could reasonably design and build from non-custom parts wouldn't be powerful enough to do any useful work. Really, don't bother going down this road, 15 years to get to this point is not very encouraging. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com
