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OS hot topics

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:02 am
by hda
Hi everyone
I'm a bigginer who wants a new or intresting topic about OS to work on.The filed's varaiaty are confusing.My areas of intrests are EC,AI and...
Probalbly the qustion is a silly one,But can anyone of you devellopers help me in finding a good topic ?

Re: OS hot topics

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:13 am
by Brendan
Hi,
hda wrote:I'm a bigginer who wants a new or intresting topic about OS to work on.The filed's varaiaty are confusing.My areas of intrests are EC,AI and...
Probalbly the qustion is a silly one,But can anyone of you devellopers help me in finding a good topic ?
EC??

Probably one of the most interesting research topics at the moment is Software Transactional Memory (or STM).

I've been curious about it myself - wondering if there's be any benefit implementing STM within the OS's linear memory manager, so that all languages could use it interchangeably without special language based STM support. The main problem I see is that it'd be "page granular" and there'd be a lot of false sharing making contention worse. To be honest I'm not sure how much of a problem this would be, as (IMHO) STM isn't really intented for situations where contention is likely anyway.


Cheers,

Brendan

Re: OS hot topics

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:55 am
by os64dev
hda wrote:Hi everyone
I'm a bigginer who wants a new or intresting topic about OS to work on.The filed's varaiaty are confusing.My areas of intrests are EC,AI and...
Probalbly the qustion is a silly one,But can anyone of you devellopers help me in finding a good topic ?
well start by doing a course on how to type questions correctly because the number of errors in the quoted area are annoying. :(

Re: OS hot topics

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:46 pm
by mystran
os64dev wrote:
hda wrote:Hi everyone
I'm a bigginer who wants a new or intresting topic about OS to work on.The filed's varaiaty are confusing.My areas of intrests are EC,AI and...
Probalbly the qustion is a silly one,But can anyone of you devellopers help me in finding a good topic ?
well start by doing a course on how to type questions correctly because the number of errors in the quoted area are annoying. :(
Well a certain number of minor spelling mistakes and typos are to be accepted, but here indeed it's hard to decipher what was intended to be said. :?

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:00 pm
by ~
I have to admit that when posts turn that incoherent (read carefully and try to make sense of it) and even more when that user has only 1 post (or never breaks the barrier of 15 coherent, well crafted and really useful ones) and doesn't return to clarify or reply anything insightful, I am tempted to think that it was a bot.

Re: OS hot topics

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:39 pm
by anon19287473
hda wrote:Hi everyone
I'm a bigginer who wants a new or intresting topic about OS to work on.The filed's varaiaty are confusing.My areas of intrests are EC,AI and...
Probalbly the qustion is a silly one,But can anyone of you devellopers help me in finding a good topic ?
AI, like artificial intelligence? I'm writing my OS in lisp, which i guess is an "AI language" :P
I have no idea what EC is.

It sounds like your looking for a neat project, OS-wise. Just think of a stupid, but cool idea, and refine it. If it's just a hobby, it doesn't need to be practical, just have fun. :D :D :D :D

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:55 am
by ehird
An OS in Lisp? Interesting. What compiler are you using that gives you the low level access required? I thought Lisp OS' were a thing of the Lisp Machines and nothing past that :)

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:16 am
by hda
hi every one,
Sorry for the annoying spelling and late replay.
EC is the abbreviation of "Electronic Commerce".
And thanks for your nice greetings!
To Brendan:
You introduced me an interesting opening and Currently I’m trying to collect more information about it. Thanks alot.

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:18 am
by ehird
E-Commerce at the kernel level, hells yeah!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:49 pm
by Tyler
ehird wrote:E-Commerce at the kernel level, hells yeah!
e-Commerce literally means Internet Market Place. The inernet is a high level constuct it has no place near a kernel. People need to spend more time improve needed features inside the kernel and not putting stupidly unrelated issues into it.

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:55 pm
by ~
See? Life wouldn't be the same without these bogus fora-pals!

Don't you see the Clear relation?

Artificial Intelligence (AI): for sending automatic rubbish
E-Commerce: To orientate such rubbish as it is best suited

:!:

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:38 am
by ehird
Tyler wrote:
ehird wrote:E-Commerce at the kernel level, hells yeah!
e-Commerce literally means Internet Market Place. The inernet is a high level constuct it has no place near a kernel. People need to spend more time improve needed features inside the kernel and not putting stupidly unrelated issues into it.
Your sarcasm detector needs re-adjusting sir

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:03 am
by Tyler
Probably... i'm a little touchy since microsoft and "Web 2.0" ruined everything i know.

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:05 am
by ~
Do you mean more self-controlled resources?

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:11 pm
by Candy
~ wrote:See? Life wouldn't be the same without these bogus fora-pals!

Don't you see the Clear relation?

Artificial Intelligence (AI): for sending automatic rubbish
E-Commerce: To orientate such rubbish as it is best suited

:!:
It might sound odd but that sounds quite exactly like all the companies I know. Create ideas at random (artificial intelligence), filter those ideas through random detectors (again, artificial intelligence) and use those that pass. You could emulate all that in a single computer, effectively creating money on the spot.