From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 29 23:41:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05844 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05834 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA15506; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:10:17 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA17394; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:10:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980930161017.T16936@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:10:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: ctapang@easystreet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? References: <20241.907136673@time.cdrom.com> <199809300646.QAA03427@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809300646.QAA03427@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:46:15PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 30 September 1998 at 16:46:15 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >>>> Interesting. This parallels my ongoing work in rewriting FreeBSD in >>>> GNU Emacs LISP. >>> >>> I thought it has decided that rewriting the FreeBSD kernel in Java was >>> the more portable solution. >> >> Ah, but you should see locore.el - it's sheer beauty to behold! :-) > > Does it work in vi, or does that require nvi? I guess it probably requires > an async call gate. I must ask Terry. 8-) No. FreeBSD never ran on the 286, and for the same reasons it will never run on vi. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message