5 Jun
2009
5 Jun
'09
11:38 p.m.
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
That would be extremely yummy.
I wonder how hard it would be? I can't say that I'm very familiar with the
capabilities of RSX, but, considering the size of the code we're talking
about, could it be possible that it wouldn't involve as much work as writing
a more modern, featureful, cluttered, bloaty operating system?
The main problem I see with porting it is that to do so would be in
violation of copywrite. The second problem I see is that I'm not sure what
exists in the way of source code. You would need some sort of Macro-11 to
Macro-x86 compilier. An easier port might be something like RSTS/E, though
the source code for it is somewhere around 150MB, IIRC.
Realistically time might be better spent on writing a TCP Stack and running
it under an emulator.
Zane
> It's damnably slow, but at least it works.
Yep. The scary thing is...an OS like RSX-11 or RSTS/E is quite zippy
on a machine like that.
Hmmm. Porting (or writing a work-alike of) RSX-11 for a newer
architecture (suck as PC -- for the low cost) comes to mind.