From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 20 10:33:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28215 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28210 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA15684; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:26:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702201826.LAA15684@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Windows95: what you don't know, you must reinvent To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:26:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jamie@inna.net, toneil@visigenic.com, jfieber@indiana.edu, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3221.856457120@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 20, 97 08:45:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ .. WIN32 API support ... ] > Easier Said Than Done. Most of the barriers are political, not technical: o Switch to ELF o Support segment coloring o Set VM hueristics for kernel memory based on segment coloring, including but not limited to handling kernel page faults for some types of code. I'm willing to write the COM model support code for FreeBSD. I might even be willing to write a Registry (or LDAP directory) for class identification, agregation, and configuration. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.