Re: [jos-general] [TINI OS] Seen it?

[John M. <jm...@ma...>]

Hi;

Gilbert Carl Herschberger II wrote:
> Does that sound familiar? It should. Many of the issues we've discussed on
> this mailing list have been addressed in TINI OS. You can learn about it in
> this new book.

Also, along similar lines to both this and gchii's related "know your
competition message," a more-or-less complete set of JavaOS (yes, *that*
Sun/IBM JavaOS) documentation is available via the web.  It includes a
device driver writer's guide, a system administrator's guide, etc.  It
must be well over a thousand pages.  (PDF format, fyi.)  There is also a
book available at Amazon (my copy is unfortunately at home and I am at
work) on the OS, although it seemed pretty skimpy to me (I think it's
less than about 150 pages).

A long time ago, I suggested chasing JavaOS' tail-lights as a way to
finesse away all these design discussions.  In just the same way the
Linus cloned the UNIX kernal API, I suggested we clone the JavaOS APIs. 
The effort would have parallelized better, and we would have cloned a
debugged (if arguably somewhat over-elaborate, but, hey, that's just my
opinion) design, and we certainly would've argued less (with the
exception of underspecified parts of the design).

I don't think this suggestion went over too well.  However, maybe now is
a good time to revisit this issue.

-jm

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