Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Mar 30 2008 - 23:13:36 EST


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:59:00AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> 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 :)

Don't forget assembler converted to binary by bash(1) and a stunning
innovation of . added in front of directory names...

[if you want to summon you-know-what, might as well do that properly]
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