OpenEuphoria

Re: Suggestions??? Writting an OS in Euphoria

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at g?ai?.com> Nov 10, 2007
• 579 views

derek wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > Now this is an interesting idea.  Although I'd forget about Freedos.  Why
> > not just make a euphoria shell?  It could be a replacement for cmd.exe or
> > bash or csh, or....
> > 
> 
> i get what you are saying.
> but how will that work, because wouldnt the rest of the OS be interepreted 
> after the shell?

A shell is just an interface for doing things on an operating system.
The default shell on windows is cmd.exe.  Microsoft has also more recently
released PowerShell, which is integrated with .NET, so that you can use
real .NET objects in shell scripts.  The PowerShell is perhaps a better
analogy than cmd:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell

On *nix systems, there are lots of shells.  The default on linux is usually
bash (Bourne again shell).  There's also zsh, csh, ash, tcsh, ksh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell

Matt