[openbeos] Re: running NewOS?

Thats the whole idea.  we will do the research and find out as much as
possible on how BeOS worked.  Look at some AtheOS code and see how its done
there.  Were not planning on coding without doing any research.

-yt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred McCann" <booleanman@xxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:08 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: running NewOS?


>
> Well, the good thing about newOS is that we don't have to root through a
> lot of existing code or write to many abstraction layers to make it look
> like it's acting like Be... it's just a microkernel. Just the fact that
> it boots will save us a lot of time. I think if we took something like
> AtheOS as a base, we'd have to content with a more fleshed out OS, which
> in the end could hurt the overall design of the system.
>
> -Fred
>
> On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, at 09:45  PM, Anthony Quinn wrote:
>
> > From: "Anthony Quinn" <aquinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001  09:45:25  PM US/Eastern
> > To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [openbeos] Re: running NewOS?
> > Reply-To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > I was able to down load it and get it to boot no problem.  Not to
> > painful.
> > It has a command line interface sorta you can issue an
> > exec call to a program..although nothing much more than that.  There is
> > some
> > debug stuff that you can do with it as well.
> >
> > It is a nice start.
> >
> > -Anthony
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Justin: Rotating Pies!" <polchlop@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:17 PM
> > Subject: [openbeos] running NewOS?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> So, I'm getting prepped to get ahold of NewOS and start getting into
> >> the
> >> code.  Has anyone loaded this and started using it (hacking on it) yet?
> >>
> >> I was looking on the website, and there's not too much about it ...
> >> Does
> >> anyone know what services NewOS provides?
> >>
> >> Anyhow.  Anyone have any comments?
> >>
> >> -Justin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>

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