27 Jul
2001
27 Jul
'01
5:55 a.m.
At 01:43 AM 7/27/01 -0400, Chad wrote:
There are a zillion flavors of "works like UNIX." Everything from the
command shell is similar (MS-DOS can do this) to "device drivers are
compatible." The POSIX effort to create a compatible library interface
didn't do to well in my opinion either. When I joined what was to become
the Java group at Sun it was in the 'portable OS' group. We were looking at
building an entire OS in Java (Oak at the time.) That effort I think would
be a lot of fun using a compiler that compiled Java to machine code (rather
than using a "java chip.")
--Chuck
Wasn't Plan 9 supposed to be sort of like that?
No, it was more like Rob Pike's vision of where UNIX should have gone.
Eric Dittman wrote:
I've
thought about this, myself. Almost any new OS wants to work like
Unix.
What I'd like to see is a community effort to
make a new OS that does what
needs to be done without worrying about being compatible with something
that
> currently exists.