11.3 Resource allocation

[Chris Harris]

Like to hear more about your constructor concept.  These implimented as 
objects somehow?  Where do objects fit in in your low-level scheme of things?

Also, make it sound like even binary code is sent through a device 
driver.  This is good, I suppose, as it could be re-routed in a 
multiprocessing environment or whatever, but how would you create such a 
thing?  It would seem to make a driver for a given CPU, you would have to 
use that same CPU to run the driver, thereby defeating the driver's 
purpose, no?  Would these drivers be objects, or more like Mike's toolbox 
construct?

Also, without any kernel, how can you possibly enforce any of these ideas 
to be global?

-Chris

> > Whichever way we do go, stacks, heaps, or whatever, I would hope that it
> > would be somewhat recursive, so we could have stacks within stacks, or heaps
> > within heaps.
> I think this kind of recursivity (i.e. always be able to virtualize the
> system, not having a monolithic system organization) is *essential*.
> That's precisely what lacks completely in nowadays' systems a la Unix.
> Having a microkernel for Unix is useless to the user, because Unix is used
> as a huge monolithic system anyway. I'm really for a no-kernel concept.
> There are (atomic) device drivers, and (recursive) (de)constructors that
> transforms things. The system is founded i.e. any actual operation is
> ultimately done through the device drivers; but else it's perfectly free,
> without any kind of arbitrary, unadaptable, administration.
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