From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 09:31:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884515CE for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:31:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bert@xs4all.net) Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CBF8FC19 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peyote.boppelans.net (original.xs4all.nl [82.95.229.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id qBA9Uorp042243 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:30:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bert@xs4all.net) Message-ID: <50C5ABE1.5030003@xs4all.net> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:31:13 +0100 From: Bert Kiers Organization: XS4ALL Internet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using FreeBSD to create a completely new OS References: <11212100902.AA17194@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <11212100902.AA17194@pluto.rain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:31:28 -0000 On 12/10/12 10:02 AM, Perry Hutchison wrote: Hi, >> Forgot to mention this project vary well turn into my PhD thesis > > That's a rather different context than "personal hobby reasons". > > I was going to suggest this anyway, but for a dissertation project > I would _very strongly_ suggest that you thoroughly research Linus > Torvalds' experiences in implementing Linux, as well as any other > low-level OS implementation projects that you can find in the > literature (Multics, Unix, and OS/360 at least; Symbol 2R also > comes to mind). Much of what those earlier implementors learned Also Plan9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/) and Amoeba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_distributed_operating_system) Grtnx, -- Bert Kiers XS4ALL UNIX systeembeheerder, suspected terrorist 1984 was not meant as a manual