Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:31:02 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, ctapang@easystreet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format?
Message-ID:  <199809300231.MAA02510@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19980930114936.M15172@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 30, 98 11:49:36 am"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>> emulator, I want to build a Windows clone. The clone will use the FreeBSD
> >>> core kernel (use process/task/thread management, virtual memory modules
> >>> only).  I'm sure most of you will have a strong opinion one way or another
> >>> about this. Let's hear them!
> >>
> >> 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.
> 
> This is very much a matter of opinion.  Some say that Java's day is
> past, and maybe we should use Perl, TCL or Guile.  Despite the GPL, I
> tend to Guile, and was planning to migrate the LISP version in that
> direction.

Just as long as the final code works on my microwave.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199809300231.MAA02510>