A new OS

[Corey Coughlin]

I think it sounds like a great idea.  I'd ultimately like to go a
direction like that at some point.  One of the biggest problems with
existing operating systems (like Windows or Linux) is that they are
for the most part built on C, which then dictates what the low level
calls look like, the memory architecture, and so on.  Writing an OS in
Python could give you a new perspective on mapping a high level
architecture onto a machine.  Imagine, for instance, an OS
architecture with a genuine object hierarchy, where low level details
get abstracted into a machine level that can be swapped out to conform
to different processor architectures, where garbage collection is an
OS service, and maybe the filesystem is actually an object persistance
system, so every file is actually an object with type instead of a bag
of bytes, and then imagine how easy it would be to add advanced
indexing a la Chandler to it.  Could we then distribute programs as
only python bytecode, getting platform independence?  Would it be
easier adding security using higher levels of abstraction?  How about
creating a complete network OS?  Would that be easier in python?  In
general, as you abstract complex os services into simpler python code,
would it be easier to expand the capabilities of your os?  I can't
imagine that it would be harder.  It could be quite an interesting
project, if conducted with the aim of not just making yet another
generic operating system, but with the aim of creating a truly
pythonic OS.  That would be great.




"A Evans" <ae> wrote in message news:<107k441hitt2ld9 at corp.supernews.com>...
> Hello Everyone I am working towards starting a project developing a new
> Operating System using the Python language (or a derivative thereof). As
> recommended on this forum I am asking if people are interested in something
> like this and ask who would be willing to support a project this large.
> 
> Any and all ideas are welcome this message is just to see what kind of
> support this project would recieve
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andrew