Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jan 2008 21:50 UTC, submitted by William Lahti
.NET (dotGNU too) SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. "The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. This originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions because C# is a managed language, and by nature isn't designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating system kernel. Please note that although our goal is to create an operating system in C#, the infrastructure we have created allows kernels to be written in any language that targets the Common Intermediate Language bytecodes and exposes pointers and unsafe code."
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Very cool!
by suryad on Tue 1st Jan 2008 22:56 UTC
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Being a geek this project totally appeals to me. I wonder what happened to the OS that was supposed to be written in Java...I would like to know though isnt this something that Microsoft already attempted through Singularity?