Re: [elysium-developers] Elysium Vision?

[Hannu H. <hhe...@he...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Jennings <ni...@na...>
To: Elysium Developers <ely...@li...>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 12:32 AM
Subject: [elysium-developers] Elysium Vision?


>
> Hello,
>
> I have been reading all the posts to the list, though alot of it is
> over my head at the current moment, I have a copy of the kernel checked
out
> and have been updating it and trying to follow what i being talked about,
> while viewing the code referenced in some of the discussions etc.
>
> I have read the little information there is on the webpage at
> elysium.sourceforge.net and have somequestions, forgive me if they may be
> worded the wrong way, or asked from an inexperience point of view. I am,
> very inexperienced.
>
> 1. I get the idea that the kernel is supposed to be "minimalistic" leaving
>    it up to the applications to speak directly to the hardware in order to
>    gain performance increases.
>
> First of all, Is this true? Maybe someone could explain it in better
>    words than I just did?
>
> If this is true, then wouldn't this make developing applications.
>
> 1.1. much more difficult, i.e. requiring software developers to deal
>              with handling direct video access and any other piece of
hardware
>              it required the use of. instead of developing system level
tools
>              to handle the hardware, and abstract it for the application
>              developer, sort of the same concept as windowing toolkits
like
>      GTK etc.
>
> 1.2. much more dangerous, increasing the probability of misusing
>              hardware, either on purpose, or in error.
>
> 2. What type of environment will the core OS be?
>
>    Is it going to be a GUI OS, such as BeOS (if you haven't heard of or
>    checked out BeOS yet, you really should, it's not open source, but
>    they've got a seemingly really next generation OS.
>
>    Or will it be more like that of the UNIX's. with a text based core OS,
>    and perhaps a seperate layer for graphics?
>
> Or maybe something completely different?
>
>
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