Hi,

every time the discussion of D's feasibility for writing operating
systems pops up, I end up doing some advocacy based on my experience
with Oberon.

Similarly with another GC enabled native compiled languages like Go, Sing# and so on.

So to avoid repeating myself all the time, I have put up a page presenting an high overview how those systems used to be like.

http://progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=compilers&type=tutorial

Might still need some corrections, though. Specially the references to Mesa/Cedar.

--
Paulo