[Mono-list] Mono and MS Singularity

[Colin JN Breame]

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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 12:57, Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
> I'm sure you know MS Singularity
> (http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/).
>
> Singularity is something like a kernel (similar to Mach) + a virtual
> machine (similar to Mono/.NET VM) + a language (similar to C# but with
> special contract-programming and multithreading features). (Yes, it is much
> more than this but... ignore that, for the moment).
>
> I wonder if anybody has even thought to re-create something like
> Singularity starting from Mono (or GNU.NET). I mean, something like this:
> 1) a kernel (Linux, Mach, a "managed code" kernel written in C#,
> whatever...) 2) the Mono virtual machine (maybe with support for "channels"
> and other stuff) 3) C# or, much better, a contract-programming enabled
> version of C# (something like Sing#)
> 4) Something like a "message passing" system to support
> concurrent/distributed programming (something like the "channels" used by
> Singularity)
> 5) a (minimalistic) set of device driver written in C#.
>
> Do anybody thought about this possibility?
>
> >From the point of view of Mono, what do you think of Singularity?