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From: anon@anon.org (anon)
Subject: Re: Building a new OS using Ada
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:16:06 GMT
Date: 2009-02-12T00:16:06+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aTJkl.367719$Mh5.64981@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a669c428-4606-409f-81fb-710adbfbeb24@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com

If you want to check out a Browser app type of OS try looking into the 
dead OS SUN project called JAVAOS. 

In <a669c428-4606-409f-81fb-710adbfbeb24@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>On 5 f=E9v, 08:10, "Cedric.Lannock" <Cedric.Lann...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Because a lot of applications are build into browsers the new OS could
>> offer a good browser technology making it easy to developers to build
>> applications for the new OS because they could take to already
>> available software directly to the new platform.
>
>I deeply agree with this. The browser aspect would be even more
>important than the POSIX aspect (in respect to end user). POSIX
>services for core computation and browser like services for the UI.
>
>This could indeed ends up in a lighweight OS, while offering all the
>major needs.
>
>A question is till pending : which audiance are you targeting ?
>Typical nowadays users or computation users ? If you wish to target
>the second kind of users, then POSIX + browser services is clearly
>enough... but if you whish to target most of nowadays users, you will
>face a lot of work with the heavy and silly requirements of
>multim=E9dia.
>
>Have a nice time
>
>Y.D.




      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05  7:10 Building a new OS using Ada Cedric.Lannock
2009-02-05  7:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-02-05 10:17   ` xavier grave
2009-02-05 14:53     ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-02-05 15:55   ` andrew
2009-02-05 16:17     ` FOSDEM (Was: Building a new OS using Ada) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-02-05 16:17     ` Building a new OS using Ada Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-08 12:39 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-02-12  5:50   ` Cedric Lannock
2009-02-12  9:50     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-11 16:13 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-02-12  0:16   ` anon [this message]
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