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Re: Reinvent the OS cont
« on: June 20, 2015, 07:50:31 PM »
http://www.osnews.com/story/28636/A_reimplementation_of_NetBSD_using_a_microkernel

That was interesting I thought.

However, for an Amiga experience I would never start with a Unix style kernel that insists on mapping each and every process in its own address space and using overlapping virtual address ranges. There are alternatives targeting 64-bit architectures, going under the label SASOS though many of those are not all that well grounded in the real world.

Personally, I think CPU evolution has not been a good match for the Amiga model: CPUs are going out of their way to separate and protect, and very few have mechanics for sharing. I have heard that the old PA-RISC did have the odd feature that was along that line.
The rise and power of FPGAs and what a single person can do on his own gives me hope that someone might force the transistors to yield to their will and make this something I'm looking for.