Re: Coyotos vs. EROS

[Justin Emmanuel]

OK! I give up.

1) What is an endpoint?

Once I know that I will know what a capability or an IPC endpoint is.

Been searching for this information on the net and I have not so far
come up with anything.

On 28/10/05, Jonathan S. Shapiro <address@hidden> wrote:
> I do not recall if I have described the gap from Coyotos to EROS here. I
> have just updated the comparison page at
>
>         http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/eros-comparison.html
>
> Surprisingly, the items haven't changed much since I first wrote it. If
> you read the list of changes, what you will conclude is that
>
>   a) This is a total kernel rewrite. We can borrow a lot of code and
>      ideas from the EROS kernel, but we are touching enough places that
>      it really isn't the same kernel.
>
>   b) With the exception of endpoints, none of the changes are
>      conceptually very large. We have refined various data structures
>      and simplified some of them, but the basic ideas and concepts of
>      EROS are pretty clearly preserved in Coyotos.
>
>   c) A few programs will change significantly because endpoints and
>      events will have significant impact on these programs.
>
> The really important thing here is that the basic design model and idiom
> hasn't changed. This means that the intuition and experience we have
> from EROS is very directly applicable in Coyotos.
>
>
> shap
>
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