Hi Wolfgang, I think that compressing the operating system would slow things down alot. We would end up with a slow system like WIndows, which would require 4Ghz machies to make it look and feel reasonable.
I think stick as we are now, writting the operating system uncompressed and in assembler. Derek Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > On 1 Nov 2005 at 9:29, Malcolm Lear wrote: > > >>It should be quite possible to have the OS decompress itself out of ROM >>into RAM. Many other OS's >>including vXworks and RTEMS have this option. > > > OK, if somebody writes, tests and and debugs the software and then makes > sure it decompresses to the right places..... > > Wolfgang > ---------------------------------------- > www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
