Synthesis Kernel - an x86 version?

osknockout

May 8 2007, 07:17 PM

For those of you (er, any -if that's the case) who've heard about the Synthesis Kernel in Massalin's PhD thesis, has anyone tried to make an x86 version?

And to everyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about:
The Synthesis Kernel was a self-modifying os kernel written in 68k assembly that emulated unix. (a Sun's version I think, I can't remember)
Seems that the emulation went faster than the real thing, maybe the only time that ever happened.

Anyway, I'm thinking about making a remake of it for the x86 and merging it into my own kernel as a module,
just wondering if the attempt's already been made because I can't seem to find anything about it.

darkmage35

Jun 8 2008, 06:41 AM

QUOTE(osknockout @ May 9 2007, 05:17 AM)

Finding out about obscure things with generic names is annoying. I've also been trying to find info on it (hopefully the source). Would help if I could get through to Microunity (where Alexia Massalin apparently works).

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