OpenEuphoria

Re: EUOS ??

• Posted by JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET Oct 01, 1999
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EU>Irv wrote:
EU>>
EU>> Methinks an interpreter - even a nice fast one like Euphoria - is not the
EU>> kind of thing to write an OS with. Perhaps the EUOS guys have come to the
EU>> same conclusion.
EU>>
EU>> Regards,
EU>> Irv

EU>What would you run the interpreter on without an OS?  Unless you wanted to
EU>make your own without any API calls... in which case, you'd still need to co
EU>in some other language.  YMMV.

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My thinking is that EuOS should be written in a mix of C and Euphoria
(and possibly Assembly). C and Assembly are used to setup low-level
hardware stuff and interpret Euphoria programs (including most of the
operating system - specificially the kernel).

The problem is that very few people (to my knowledge) are working on
EuOS and it is rather disorganized. If anyone would like to help, please
do. Just read the messages on the message board and post some replies,
suggestions etc.

I would very much like to finish EuOS, even if it isn't the greatest
operating system ever, it would just be fun and interesting. My concern
is that Euphoria isn't fast enough to compete with operating systems
like Linux - the only advantage would be that it's easier to program.
Hopefully, this won't be a problem - especially if we can devise a
really fast interpreter (not nessicarily interpreting Euphoria source
code - perhaps a "compiled" version instead).

Jeffrey Fielding
JJProg at cyberbury.net
http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/
EuOS website: http://euos.hypermart.net/