If an OS was to be written in Python, how'w it look?

Paul Rubin http
Mon Oct 6 12:23:52 EDT 2008


"Dan Upton" <upton at virginia.edu> writes:
> The closest I can think of to that is Singularity, Microsoft's
> research OS written in .NET (well, C# specifically I guess).  

Singularity is almost the exact opposite of this and I don't think it
uses (unmodified) C#.  It does away with use of hardware memory
protection in any form, and relies on rigorous, statically enforced
type safety in the compilers and OS to isolate processes from one
another.



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