At 2:05 PM -0800 11/30/02, Bryan Hundven wrote:
You could certainly use Parrot as the core CPU and hardware for your operating system. (I wouldn't want to use it as a testbed for real hardware design, if only because of the horrid cost in transistors that some of the features are likely to incur...) The guaranteed feature set is a bit different than you see on many systems, but that's cool. (Anyone feel like making some OpenGL ops? :)The idea is your choosen architecture (alpha, sparc, ix86, ppc, etc...) boots up and instead of loading an "Operating System", it loads a platform dependant layer, that in-turn has its own "CPU" and "Memory", etc... that you write your operating system on.
You could certainly build an interesting system on top of parrot, though.
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