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Reimplenting Linux Kernel in Python

Cliff Wells clifford.wells at comcast.net
Thu Oct 14 02:18:37 EDT 2004 
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 01:44 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2004-10-14, Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >>> Besides that, Linux is Posix compliant and emulates Unix
> >>> system calls to a large extend, and that also makes C a
> >>> natural choice.
> >> 
> >> Not sure I follow on that point.  Any low level language that
> >> can deal with a C "struct" and byte-addressible memory would be
> >> fine.
> >
> > Well, Unix itself was written in C,
> 
> Originally it wasn't, but recent versions are.

'Recent' meaning since 1974?  ;)

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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net>
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