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Drew DeVault: "I needed a break from Real Work so Im speedrunning writing a Unix (fosstodon.org)
41 points by kristianp 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



Related discussion Writing a Unix clone in about a month[0] (389 points, 7 days ago, 126 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467297


We ran through the Andrew S Tanenbaum OS book and implemented most of MINIX in two semesters in the late 90s at evergreen state, the basketweaving prototype


20ish years ago I met some transfer students to my university and they had mentioned that making your own unix was one of the courses at their previous university.


Interesting. Where can I look at the source code? Is this written in Hare?


Some of it is in Hare, and there’s some C code in there as well.

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/bunnix

His blog post on it, if you’re interested: https://drewdevault.com/2024/05/24/2024-05-24-Bunnix.html


Thanks for the links.


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Someone told us this and actually provided context - even that's only mildly better than noise. To boot, they shared several hours before you did.

Pretty sure your simulation is broken or you're just asleep at the wheel.

Posts like that, and to be fair ones you usually manage, barely qualify for more than noise. This one is notable. It's late and has no context to add at all. It is noise.

Get it together/stop. Or don't. It's your simulation. Despite all of these words, I don't really care about the posts.

I'm only here because of how consistently I see this. I'm here to tell you it's a wash. The effort or resources can be spared.

I'm probably one of the few that would notice if you chose to lurk instead.

If it's your hobby, I'm not one to judge. I'm just saying you don't appear to be very good at it or motivated to improve.

That's not a total judgement. The value is debatable; it's rigged.

I'm curious if anything, but don't need an answer. Is this bad AI? Are you bored? Do you need mental or technical help?

You see how you work against yourself, right?


It's just a flag because it's a dupe as linked to in the other comment.


To go next to the other one? Appearance? Really? A dupe of dupes. Insanity. Okay, whatever.


The other one does not flag it as a dupe. Usually would also direct to where the discussion is but that was already done.


There's a flag button, though. Sure - it's not the same but we don't fix visual noise with more

I don't mean to belabor it. If the system demands this, perhaps the observing powers change the system




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