From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 16:13:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DD916A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263D843F85 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-chat@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A31md-0006A4-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:13:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A31mc-00069w-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:13:54 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A31mc-0005W4-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:13:54 +0200 From: MC Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:13:50 +0200 Organization: Temple of the Moby Hack Lines: 19 Message-ID: <87zngrxhw1.fsf@fuckup.hack.org> References: <20030922104213.L335@www.bluecirclesoft.com> <28r828bw2q.828@mail.comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z0g2/0i3fMU3P36hdxB1c36X0cE= Sender: news Subject: Re: What are people using for MUA's nowadays? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:13:57 -0000 Brad Knowles writes: > So, when are you going to be shipping emacsBSD? I mean, it > shouldn't be hard to implement the entire OS inside of emacs, > right? ;-) Some years ago, I actually experimented with a wrapper around Emacs as init, running it as the only userland process. That's the closest I have ever come to a real /live/ LispM, if you don't count looking at what was little more than garbage... It would probably be quite possible to link Emacs with the stuff from the Flux OS Kit and create a standalone operating system as well. I'm really surprised someone hasn't done it yet. I know that the Rice PLT guys did it with their Scheme implementation, for instance, and it supposedly took only five hours to get their new 'SchemeOS' running. MC