"Trevor Parscal" <Trevor_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:difq92$t5v$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <diekpi$qev$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>>
>>
>>"Will" <Will_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:di4149$69$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>> And for application programs - is there a D gc DLL that D programs can
>>share?
>>> Somewhat out-of-topic but Will Windows Vista have gc built-in?
>>
>>I've always thought that gc ought to be a service provided by the
>>operating
>>system. There are so many garbage collected languages in common use -
>>having
>>it in the o.s. makes it worthwhile to make a very good one, and so all the
>>languages benefit.
>>
>>
>
> I still am looking for some other ambitious programmers to work on a D
> kernel
> that can run multiple types of compiled executables (ELF, PE, COFF,
> etc)...
>
> Than, you could just GC at the OS level, and .. yeah.. Do something
> amazing you
> know.. Any takers?
I would be willing to help, though I'll admit that I'm no expert at all on such things; a D kernel would rock though.
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor Parscal

In article <dig9bf$1aov$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ameer Armaly says...
>
>
>"Trevor Parscal" <Trevor_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:difq92$t5v$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> In article <diekpi$qev$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>>>
>>>
>>>"Will" <Will_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:di4149$69$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>>> And for application programs - is there a D gc DLL that D programs can
>>>share?
>>>> Somewhat out-of-topic but Will Windows Vista have gc built-in?
>>>
>>>I've always thought that gc ought to be a service provided by the
>>>operating
>>>system. There are so many garbage collected languages in common use -
>>>having
>>>it in the o.s. makes it worthwhile to make a very good one, and so all the
>>>languages benefit.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I still am looking for some other ambitious programmers to work on a D
>> kernel
>> that can run multiple types of compiled executables (ELF, PE, COFF,
>> etc)...
>>
>> Than, you could just GC at the OS level, and .. yeah.. Do something
>> amazing you
>> know.. Any takers?

I really want to write a OS in D (I have some experience), but I have to wait
full debugging support for Linux. I only started to code something based on my
old code :-)
I'll use the GC in the kernel, but I'll wait to add user-level GC facilities.

>I would be willing to help, though I'll admit that I'm no expert at all on such things; a D kernel would rock though.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Trevor Parscal
>
>

Build it and they will come.


seriously tho, Ive been doing some thinking towards this end and eventually hope to do something like that. it would be interesting to see a real working os in D, i would definately be interested if you were to get something going. but im currently working on a few projects of my own.


Trevor Parscal wrote:
> I still am looking for some other ambitious programmers to work on a D kernel
> that can run multiple types of compiled executables (ELF, PE, COFF, etc)...
> 
> Than, you could just GC at the OS level, and .. yeah.. Do something amazing you
> know.. Any takers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor Parscal

In article <difq92$t5v$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Trevor Parscal says...
>
>In article <diekpi$qev$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>>
>>
>>"Will" <Will_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:di4149$69$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>> And for application programs - is there a D gc DLL that D programs can
>>share?
>>> Somewhat out-of-topic but Will Windows Vista have gc built-in?
>>
>>I've always thought that gc ought to be a service provided by the operating system. There are so many garbage collected languages in common use - having it in the o.s. makes it worthwhile to make a very good one, and so all the languages benefit.
>>
>>
>
>I still am looking for some other ambitious programmers to work on a D kernel that can run multiple types of compiled executables (ELF, PE, COFF, etc)...
>
>Than, you could just GC at the OS level, and .. yeah.. Do something amazing you know.. Any takers?

Sadly, I'm pretty much tapped for development time, but I'd be happy to do some testing once you get a bootable image put together (or even a proof of concept of some kind).  Outside that, I'm working hard on getting my act together (my machine 'sploded recently) to push the next milestone out for DDL... which I'm sure will be helpful for this project.

Now all you need is a name... I gather that "DOS" is already taken. ;)

- EricAnderton at yahoo

Trevor Parscal wrote:
> In article <diekpi$qev$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
> 
>>
>>"Will" <Will_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
>>news:di4149$69$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>
>>>And for application programs - is there a D gc DLL that D programs can
>>
>>share?
>>
>>>Somewhat out-of-topic but Will Windows Vista have gc built-in?
>>
>>I've always thought that gc ought to be a service provided by the operating
>>system. There are so many garbage collected languages in common use - having
>>it in the o.s. makes it worthwhile to make a very good one, and so all the
>>languages benefit.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I still am looking for some other ambitious programmers to work on a D kernel
> that can run multiple types of compiled executables (ELF, PE, COFF, etc)...
> 
> Than, you could just GC at the OS level, and .. yeah.. Do something amazing you
> know.. Any takers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor Parscal

As much programming time as I have, this sounds like a worthy and fun effort. Would this take the place of Terra in your schedule?

In article <digph8$1qhp$1@digitaldaemon.com>, The Neuromancer says...
>
>In article <dig9bf$1aov$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ameer Armaly says...
>>
>>
>>"Trevor Parscal" <Trevor_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:difq92$t5v$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>> In article <diekpi$qev$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...

..

>>> Than, you could just GC at the OS level, and .. yeah.. Do something
>>> amazing you
>>> know.. Any takers?
>
>I really want to write a OS in D (I have some experience), but I have to wait
>full debugging support for Linux. I only started to code something based on my
>old code :-)
>I'll use the GC in the kernel, but I'll wait to add user-level GC facilities.

FYI, here are some notes about some similar D projects: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?KernelWithD

jcc7