Re: [ros-kernel] Chinese government to develop Windows clone

[FuranDFX <fu...@ri...>]

In some ways, no.  If you look at an operating system, where any
developer writing something for it goes by the "This works so it
must be ok" mantra, you get software designed to run under a system of
behaviors.  These behaviors are both documented and undocumented.  Case in
point is VGA emulation.  It took a few years for video card manufacturers
to get it right.  Why?  Everyone was taking advantage of undocumented
features and behaviors.   Working on compatibility for undocumented
features is a simple matter of disassembly, but understanding how an
application makes use of an undocumented _behavior_ is another matter
entirely.  For example, your wish to have an alternative shell.  How do
you wish to do that and maintain 100% compatibility?
-Ian
    
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Royce Mitchell III wrote:

> To quote the article:
> 
> Tim Harris, an operating system expert at Cambridge University, agrees that
> cloning a fully-functional operating system would be very difficult. He
> says: "To have something that would be stable and reliable enough to be used
> by consumers would be a mammoth undertaking."
> 
> Does anybody else find this a bit presumptuous?
> 
> Royce3
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rex Jolliff" <re...@lv...>
> To: <rea...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Chinese government to develop Windows clone
> 
> 
> > At 09:52 PM 7/20/02 +0200, you wrote:
> > >http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992573
> > >
> > >  Maybe they even get to use original Microsoft source code with total
> > > impunity - lucky bastards
> >
> > I think not getting to see such code is a blessing in disguise for us.
> >
> >
> > Rex Jolliff
> > re...@lv...
> >
> >
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