What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Wolfgang Rupprecht]

In article <20514 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>I think the more immediate question is *what* would you like the GNU
>OS to run on?  [...]  Sun's would be an obvious choice, but what
>about the MMU?  Does anyone without proprietary knowledge know what
>it does?

There are much more "open" platforms than Suns.  

A 386 PC clone has well defined *and* documented register layouts.  It
is also quite a bit cheaper (due largely to competition and the fact
that anyone can design a PC workalike due to the "open" specs.) 

Wouldn't it be ironic to spend a lot of effort to write a free kernel
for a proprietary hardware base?

-wolfgang

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