From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 29 19:23:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02692 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:23:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02687 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA02510; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:31:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809300231.MAA02510@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? In-Reply-To: <19980930114936.M15172@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 30, 98 11:49:36 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:31:02 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, ctapang@easystreet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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