lyricalnanoha wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, mdj wrote:Of course, the idea of using true microkernels, let alone implementing much of the OS in a higher level language still hasn't taken off, and I suspect just the old adage of "if it aint broke don't fix it" will keep mainstream OS's from being scratch rewritten for a very long time.Isn't C a higher level language? A ton of OSes are predominantly written in C.
C, like its predecessor and inspiration B, is a low-level language in high-level clothing. It's useful to think of it as a macro package for an assembler. ;-) -michael ******** Note new website URL ******** NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."