Pthhbbbt.

[Dr. Hayden]

Dennis Marer <dmarer@iws804.intel.com> writes:

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>1. Why are you working on Moose?  (Be detailed!)
>
>2. What are your intentions?  (Technical knowledge/just for fun/fame/fortune/
>       fast women/famous fortunate fast women?)
>
>3. When all is said and done, what do you want to say you have accomplished?
>

I'm working on this project purely for the fun and for the challenge.
And, it seems I've already learned quite a lot about object oriented
design.  I enjoy the unique experience of participating in a project
of this scale by email.

When all is said and done, all I want is to be able to say, "Yeah, I
wrote an operating system." :-)  But really, no matter the success of
Moose as a product, I'd like to be able to say I had fun learning
(having a working, successful product would be nice too).

>
>Next, I began thinking about requirements - general things, like "Moose should
>be easy to port to other systems".  Or even, "Moose needs to be smaller than
>Windows NT".  Of course, some of these will be easy to accomplish... ;-)

Smaller than NT?  Now I know we said no more than 25% of total system
resources, but COME ON NOW!!  And I also really really really wish we
could make Moose look *JUST LIKE* Windows, too.  d;-)  (I'm sporting
my new baseball cap in this smiley).

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>No, I don't think we should be thinking about the Pentium yet - I was just
>offering the info if anyone is interested.  One thing we shouldn't ignore

Yeah, but I sure would love to get my hands on that set of manuals you
bought; unfortunately, though, I currently have a bad case of broke.

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>Just a guess: The P6 will do instruction ordering optimization on the fly. :-)
>
>                               Dennis

But of course, when the P6 comes out, Moose will by then do
instruction ordering optimization _much better_ than anyone else :-)

Later,
Ross