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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Designing an object-oriented operating system in C++
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Date: 6 Feb 90 15:34:31 GMT
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In article <1187@bimacs.BITNET>, geiman@bimacs.BITNET (geiman mark) says:
>I need your help in obtaining pointers for literature about designing
>an object-oriented operating system to be written in C++.
>

While I can't help, this does bring to mind a question that's been rattling
around in my mind for awhile.

There are some operating systems, eg, Minix, AmigaDos, and Mach, that
employ a metaphor of separate processes passing messages back and forth
to one another.  This sounds to me similar to a part of the OOP metaphor.

Two questions --- is it easier or harder to create such an OS using an
OOPL, and is it easier or harder to create an OOPL under such an operating
system?

       lee