New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

Jonathon McKitrick jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Mon Apr 5 12:11:21 PDT 2004


On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:08:01PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
: :
: :Call me naive, but wouldn't it be easier to write device drivers in Forth?
: :Or is it difficult to interface with C and OS level code?
: :
: :jm
: :-- 
: :My other computer is your Windows box.
: 
:     Forth is unreadable and unmaintainable. 

They DO use it in some NASA embedded apps, right?

:     And, actually, there is no ATA driver in forth.  It is simply making
:     BIOS calls to access the disk.

Ah, I see.



jm
-- 
My other computer is your Windows box.





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