Peter WA Wood napsal(a): >Heather > >A REBOL operating system is really great news. Some people on the >mailing list have been dreaming that RT would produce a REBOL operating >system for years. When is it going to be formally announced? > >Peter > > > > Well. I don't expect full Rebol/OS, like it was first talked about - MagmaOS, back in times when Rebol was named LAVA :-) I am not sure if underlying layer is decided already, but imo Linux makes sense. I really do prefer QNX though, as its kernel is only 70 or so KB, it is totally component based, but it is not free. Small Linux distros are already available. That is not problem imo.
The problem is, - how to integrate Rebol properly? Remember past RT's marketing machine, when IOS was everything and technology nothing? (exagerrating here of course :-) Someone on AltME already doubted PR claims of VitalNeeds - Rebol was the choice, because it uses fraction of memory of other systems etc.? But really - what is the truth? Rebol is not properly componentised, async kernel was postponed, not to mention things like tasking/threading are not available at all. Language extensions are not implemented, nor are View plug-ins, so those wanting to speed up some things are stuck or left with libraries. Cross platform VM would be nice. We also know, that Rebol is not always memory savy. Yes, it takes some small amout of your storage, but such factor with today's capacity is not problem at all - Rebol could be megabytes of size. Memory consumption/efficiency is the problem though. It will be really nice, if new oportunities (Vital Need/Risen World cooperation), brings new requirements and RT will advance how they technology work. Technology itself - the language - is excellent! Cheers, -pekr- -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
