[Mono-dev] [Mono-devel-list] Operating System in C# Project

[Johann MacDonagh]

I would love to see what you have accomplished so far. What portion of what
you mentioned is in C#?


Mauricio Henriquez wrote:
> 
> sorry, what is the main idea??, develop a operating system in C#, sorry 
> I lost the first post.
> If that is the case, I have a prototype OS in C# (for educational 
> pospuses only), offcourse is very, very, very basic, for the moment only 
> open one or more "proto-assembler" files (like compiled programs), and 
> allocate memory for each "proceess", define a PCB for each process and 
> begin the execution of each assembly line with a implementation of the 
> "Round-Robbin" algorith, also do "context change" to change from one 
> process to other "ready" process, and show all the execution information.
> 
> anyone interesting??
> 
> Mauricio
> 
> Brian Crowell wrote:
>> jmacdonagh wrote:
>>   
>>> Glad to see I'm not the only one interested in ths. I've also toyed
>>> around
>>> with this idea for some time. I began looking at traditional operating
>>> system development to learn a little more.
>>>     
>>
>> What interests me most about this is a C# program as a first-class
>> citizen, or really, every API in the system being not only available, but
>> *designed for* managed programs.
>>
>> I think a good example of that can be found in Microsoft's DirectX, which
>> we were just discussing. Compare Managed DirectX to XNA. The differences
>> are big. XNA exposes, for the most part, the very same APIs, but in a
>> much more intuitive and friendly manner than Managed DirectX.
>>
>> You could consider fully object-oriented operating systems, where the
>> design of the API is every bit as important as its concept. You could
>> organize the system around safe plug-ins, each providing some service to
>> the whole, such as a windowing system, file systems, etc., but which are
>> most importantly *as easy to write as implementing an interface or an
>> abstract base class.*
>>
>> I'd be very interested in participating on design of such a thing. I've
>> been trying to teach myself good object-oriented design over the years,
>> and I think I would have some good input to give past the initial problem
>> of booting such an environment.
>>
>> Perhaps the project could be approached in two stages? Half where we boot
>> the managed environment, and half where we assume the managed
>> environment. You could design and implement these independently of each
>> other. You could even design a set of classes to emulate the kernel on
>> top of an ordinary runtime, for the purposes of unit testing. One
>> strategy I've become fond of, especially where components and unit
>> testing come into play, is generous use of the IServiceProvider
>> interface; if components accessed kernel objects this way (or a similar
>> way, where you ask for a base class but not a specific implementation),
>> they would neither need to know or care whether they're using the real
>> thing or not.
>>
>> Several thoughts. Exciting stuff.
>>
>> --Brian
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