[openbeos] Re: Of Haiku and a HAL

"Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was day dreaming the other day instead of taking notes at class, 
> and 
> I came to think of the Win32 glue for the Interface Kit.  What if one 
> extended this to other platforms, and different levels of Haiku?  
> Shouldn't one (with the neccessary amount of glue) be able to run the 
> servers on, say, Win32 or UN*X and write a syscall wrapper (and 
> implement ports, etc.), enabling one to essentially run Haiku under a 
> completely different OS without a noticable speed decrease?

That's essentially what the B.E.OS and some other projects were about. 
It might still be a lot of work, that doesn't necessarily pays off :)

Bye,
   Axel.

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