Experimental OS development using D

[John Reimer]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:36:26 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For
Email) wrote:

> Harry Vennik wrote:
>> Is there anyone here who is interested in working with me to get that project going, and help by
>> contributing in the development of a specification and/or in implementation of those (including PoC
>> coding)?
> 
> Just in case nobody has mentioned it: a small and elegant UNIX kernel to 
> use as a source of inspiration is Minix 3 (http://www.minix3.org/).
> 
> I've seen Tanenbaum talking about it, and Minix 3 is a fresh new 
> approach to OS design featuring high modularity: the kernel itself 
> boasts only 4000 lines of code. It would be interesting to see how that 
> translates in D.
> 
> Andrei

Very interesting!

I'll download the svn source and check it out. :)

-JJR