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Re: A 21st Century Apple II?



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. 

-uso.