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Name: Anonymous 2011-09-28 8:03

http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=24190

In LoseThos, core 0 is master and the rest are slaves.  Also, LoseThos is for single-user home systems, not multiuser mainframes or servers. 

It is multitasking, but, for example, does not break 100 block disk reads into pieces, so drive is locked and other tasks waiting on drive starve.  I plan to keep it that way -- it's simpler.

I turn interrupts off during some parts of code AND employ a spin lock.  Conceptually, turning-off interrupts instantly gives you mutex... exclusion from other tasks (on that core).  For multicore, you need to go beyond, so I employ separate spin locks for everything.  Technically, a spin lock alone is good enough without turning-off interrutps, but, I donno, just because I think it's more efficient, I turn-off interrupts, too.  In almost all cases, applications are single core and run on core 0, so CLI provides no-waste solutions to mutual exclusion.  My spin locks Yield CPU on failure, which is unacceptible for large-number-of-tasks systems.  Go use Linux if you want that.  If you want simpler, use LoseThos.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-29 4:23

>>55
Like 20" rims?

Did you install it?  You can customize easily.

I've thought of countless ways to market it, some hilariously bad.  It's kind-of funny when entrepreneurs have delusions of grandeur.

God says...
C:\TEXT\DARWIN.TXT


Amblyopsis, blind fish

America, North, productions allied to those of Europe
--boulders and glaciers of
--South, no modern formations on west coast

Ammonites, sudden extinction of

Anagallis, sterility of

Analogy of variations

Andaman Islands inhabited by a toad

Ancylus

Animals, not domesticated from being variable
--domestic; descended from several stocks
--acclimatisation of

Animals of Australia
--with thicker fur in cold climates
--blind, in caves
--extinct, of Australia

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