[Oberon] Concurrency support in Oberon
Lars O
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Mon Jan 25 01:08:59 CET 2016
eas lab wrote:
> ]> Can't we program a Linux like operating system using Oberon language?
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> ]But why would you want to?
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> Leave the multi-user / multi-tasking to the OS specialists.
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> Linux has zillions of contributors.
Zillions of Monkeys on type writers cannot write a proper poem, no matter
how many monkeys you add.. the monkeys must be smart, and not stupid.
Plan9 was an attempt to solve the problem, and failed. Wirth's operating
systems are just toys, like standard pascal was a toy. Interesting, but
not much real world use out of it. Oh I hate that term, "real world".
Dijkstra would be rolling in his academically obscure grave!
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