[Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...

[haywire666 at aol.com]

I think it should be in c instead of assembly myself. The advantages of assembly are no longer as big as back in the day I think
with current compilers, c makes things so much more portable and easy to move to new platforms... (Or so I hear from programmer friends) 


www.aros.org - Take aros, the open source version of amigaOS for example. Its been ported to :
x86, 68k, arm, powerpc and more. All because it was rooted in C.


Of course I should mention I'm not a programmer really (I don't think basic counts), but I am very interested in OS programming and developments.


When I heard about nitros9 I wondered if it could be ported to x86. Even a low spec x86 machine (1ghz by today would be very low spec) 
would be awesome under os9. Even if it just did svga and network drivers were limited to specific network cards, it could be awesome.


Steven



-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 1:03 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] The Mark Twain of operating systems...


On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:01 AM, haywire666 at aol.com wrote:

> I wish someone would port nitros09 to x86, or better yet... ARM.
> Small, lightweight, effecient, it would be an excellent netbook os also I 
think.

I wonder if there would be any purpose of taking the 6309 NitrOS-9 and 
recreating it in C, as an app that could run on top of other OS's for playing 
with, or as something that could run AS an OS (much more work at that level for 
drivers, etc.).

That's pretty much how OS-9000 (today known as OS-9 for XXX) came to be, as a 
Portable OS-9 that could be targeted easily to new architectures...

		-- Allen



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