[openbeos] Re: Of Haiku and a HAL

> Hello,
> 
> 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?
It's very much doable. In fact, it's been done for Win32 but not 
released. A past contributor by the name of Marc Flerackers ported 
Haiku to Win32 but was waiting until we release R1 before releasing his 
work so as not to preempt ours. There are screenshots out there, but I 
don't have the link handy. It shouldn't be hard to Google around for, 
though.

--DarkWyrm

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