I have a new (old) project idea, nick-named RTMOS, or Run-Time Modifiable Operating System. I don’t like the RT “Real Time” connotations. Anyone got an idea for a better name? To put it in one sentence, I’m thinking of doing the emacs equivalent of operating system – infinitely run-time modifiable. I’m writing a rational / research proposal and will post it when it’s ready, but I need a good name now!
August 19, 2004
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RTMOS
Hello,
Can you please elaborate a little ?
What exactly is being modifyed in this
OS and in which circumstances ?
(I assume it is not such advanced OS that it founds
it own bugs in run time, modifys the code to fix them , compiles and builds the modified code and restarts itself to a new running session (including a self auto debugging session ). Even that such a feature may be nice to have.
RRX
Comment by rrx — August 19, 2004 @ 12:31 AM |
Re: RTMOS
I will elaborate a little, as soon as I finish writing it (the description, not the OS)
Comment by mulix — August 19, 2004 @ 4:26 AM |
Re: RTMOS
suggestions for Modifiable OS name:
ModiOs.
ModOs. (have some conotation to old MsDos…)
Moos.
RRX
Comment by rrx — August 22, 2004 @ 10:51 PM
VariOS?
The latin for change/changable is varius.
*shrug*
‘Sounds like an interesting idea.
Comment by xtat — August 19, 2004 @ 12:39 AM |
hmm… I’ll think about it. Thanks!
Comment by mulix — August 19, 2004 @ 4:27 AM |
http://cobalt.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?change Has a list of the latin words for “change”. A lot of them end in ‘o, which is good for the ‘OS suffix.
For example, from the word “Transform” we get:
ciris -is f. [a bird , into which Scylla was transformed].
Comment by yrk — August 19, 2004 @ 3:18 AM |
interesting, thanks
Comment by mulix — August 19, 2004 @ 4:56 AM |
DynamiCOS?
My shot is DynamiCOS, from dynamic, which is essentially what you want. Hope you like it.
Comment by shlomif — August 19, 2004 @ 6:12 AM |
So… are you serious?
I don’t doubt your capabilities, and I am reminded of the time I thought making emacs /sbin/init might be interesting.
But I can’t help but think that there’s the makings of a good troll in here, and I wonder if I’m the only one, especially following on the heels of your last post….
But then, I thought ReactOS would be complete vaporware too.
Comment by jhf — August 19, 2004 @ 2:29 PM |
> So… are you serious?
yep
> I don’t doubt your capabilities,
that’s nice – I do
> and I am reminded of the time I thought making emacs /sbin/init might be
> interesting.
that’s one way of putting it
> But I can’t help but think that there’s the makings of a good troll in
> here, and I wonder if I’m the only one, especially following on the
> heels of your last post….
Check out movitz, http://www.common-lisp.net/project/movitz/.
I’m not sure how far I will go with this idea, but I’m 100% serious in thinking about it.
Comment by mulix — August 19, 2004 @ 11:49 PM |