5 Jun
2009
5 Jun
'09
9:25 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
It would be nice to see just about any OS that wasn't basically POSIX, or
DOS/Windows running native on a PC.
?ColorForth!!
Plan 9! We don't pretend to follow POSIX, we just had Thompson and
Kernighan do what they wanted. ;)
John
--
"I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS
reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C,
Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
>
> 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.