SqueakOS on VSTa microkernel

Fred Bacon bacon at aerodyne.com
Fri Jan 1 20:14:16 UTC 1999


On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Steve Dekorte wrote:

> 
> Another possible microkernel for SqueakOS:
> 
>   http://www.chat.net/~jeske/VSTa/index.html
> 
> Here's a brief description from the site:
> 
> VSTa is quite different than your typical free UNIX. First, it does not
> even try to be exactly a UNIX; areas which have proven to be problematic
> for extensibility or efficiency have been changed. For instance, signals
> are strings, as are error numbers. Thus, VSTa is much more of a platform
> for experimentation with beyond UNIX ideas than simply another
> implementation of UNIX.


You may also want to consider L4 as a microkernel.

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/

Fred Bacon

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