Brain Clouds are colorless green ideas that are sleeping happily in your head. If they get going, they could become full fledged BrainStorms.
Here are some recent BrainClouds:
Has anyone looked at a combination of MMURTL (from the book "Build Your Own 32-bit OS") and Kaffe to see if the two could be somehow melded into a quick JOS for the Intel platforms (and maybe easily ported to others?) I'm reading the MMURTL book right now and it has spawned some ideas.
MichaelManley (manley@rcpms.net)
A Simple concept of persisting object would be a good idea.
I Think about a DBInputStream and DBOutputStream for a waiy to save an object into a database.
ChristianKurzke cnkurzke@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Plattform independence of JOS would - as I see it mean to write some microkernel - Hardware Abstraction Layer stuff in another language than Java - where I could imagine that posix compliant C Code should give the best portability to that.
-MichaelWDietrich Michael.W.Dietrich@fecher.de
Don't see why the HAL can't be almost entirely in Java (perhaps natively compiled) as well, and in fact as many have pointed out, an emulated HAL on top of existing VMs is probably a good idea. Certainly its interface to the rest of the OS will be as a set of Java classes, with a subset of methods written natively for access to machine registers and such; but these methods should ne a very small part of the system as a whole.