p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote:
I had another crazy thought about enhancing the kernel. From what I've read of the history of Mint, it was based on a BSD like kernel and extended to allow GEM apps to run. So intead of trying to add loads of modern OS features to FreeMint, why not take a newer BSD and port the FreeMint back features into it ? This has the advantage that the developers will be dealing with the Atari/GEM features of FreeMint that they are familiar with rather than trying to grapple with adding unfamiliar stuff into FreeMint. However they would stll have to learn their way around unfamiliar BSD code. Peter
A vm NEEDS a pit. a programmable timer. and context switching. in the OS. then paging 4K blocks out of memory in a LRU (Last Resently Used) method. then you will have the basic structure of a VM. TOS and even Mint dont have the hardware support. the closest thing a TOS will have is the vertical interrupt. in my machines it was 200ms and with a fast disk could have run a slow VM. I am all for a VM that works in MiNT.
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