Brian's Arrow System

[Maneesh Yadav]

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Tril wrote:

> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Maneesh Yadav wrote:
> 
> > Let's take this one by one, what is not in a system like say Linux that
> > you will find in Retro for bootstrapping?
> 
> See below. I already answered this.
> 
> > > > Your goign to tie all your code
> > > > down into some un-advanced Retro API and then make the effort to write in
> > > > TUNES?
> > > 
> > > Not at all.  There is no advantage to coding at the retro level compared
> > > to coding at the posix level or LISP VM level or Smalltalk VM level.  If
> > > we run our HLL on retro it's just to be able to say we wrote the whole
> > > system, not for any practical reason.  I don't care which lower layer is
> > > used to bootstrap.  If my post suggested otherwise I apologize, that was
> > > just one possible approach.
> 
> David Manifold <dem@tunes.org>
> This message is placed in the public domain.
> 

So you're going to set back your development effort so you can say you
wrote a the bottom part of the OS?