Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java

From: Bernd Eckenfels
Date: Sun Mar 30 2008 - 22:59:32 EST


In article <47F0491F.4050804@xxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> (Windows/MacOS/Linux/BSD etc). Ie, imagine using a drivers written for
> the Solaris in Linux, won't it be cool?

I think the device driver reuse between the various C-kernels is pretty big.
For efficiency and since the low level stuff is a major part of device
drivers, I cant see a Java solution. I guess we would see drivers in Forth before :)

Gruss
Bernd
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