Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasoned Linux.

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:16:19 -0500

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Fyodor Tkachov wrote:

> All (re)written in any flavor of Oberon of course.

I do not think that rewriting other's peoples work is of much value.
Reinventing the wheel is generally a bad idea.

It would be valuable to do something that others are not doing. Not being
an OS expert, I can only propose a very simplistic concept. For example,
how about using the Linux "modules" (kernel subsystems loaded with insmod
or modprobe) to implement either the Oberon System or Oberon-friendly
environment? I will call it simply "wirth", though this name may be
reserved.

I would love to see Oberon System or BlackBox running on top of wirth. Or
perhaps a few Oberon Systems or BlackBoxes, each one running on a separate
CPU core and communicating with other Oberon Systems via mechanisms
provided by wirth.

One can say "but BlackBox is running on wine". Yes, but wine is big and
not suitable for embedded systems. On the other hand, wirth could be small
because its sole purpose would be to provide the Oberon/BlackBox-friendly
environment.

I am not sure if the idea of wirth makes sense to OS experts. To me it
looks fresh. I think it makes more sense than reimplementing parts of
Linux kernel, which are perfectly fine, though perhaps ugly. But who cares
if it is ugly, if it works? (It does not matter what color is the cat, if
it catches mice -- this one is for Fyodor.)

W.

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