Just some initial thoughts

[Maneesh Yadav]

Hello Tunes project members.

I think my eariler post to Fare was seen by everybody so I guess you
know how I got into the project.


I hope I'm not overstepping my rights of expression as I am new, but I
think a good idea would be to get a usable micro kernel running on a
familliar platform (i386 IMHO-which has the potential to attract a large
body of developers for at least a little while longer), that
practically demonstrates a lot of the fundamental paradigms that have
been outlined.

BTW
I have a little piece of 80386 asm, for a parallel processing safe
linked list add item/remove item primitive, that (I think) is pretty
efficient.  I've always wanted to get it checked out to make sure the
algorithm works and opinions on it, now it wasn't brain surgery, but I
did derive it myself, but unfortunaltey I couldn't test it (I have but a
single CPU).

As for a little background on me:

-In my research for my previously failed project I have come to
understand the Intel archtecture very well particularly from the OS
point of view.

-I code in C++, Java, x86 asm

-Done a fair bit o' work with 3d graphics programming

I have some suggestion as for the use/disuse of selectors, TSS's,
privlege levels and the like for an Intel specific implimentation.  Are
we ready to discuss such things, or are we already past that?

Pleasure to be working with all of you.

-Maneesh