oxide-and-friends VS PIOS

After listening to the Oxide and Friends episode about the Rust trademark dustup I thought some people in the Rust community might be interested in a concept I've been working on for a while called Persistent Democracy.

They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.

For anyone interested in the history of NeXT, I highly recommend Randall Stross's "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing."[0] (And I regret that I may have personally had some role in the current outsized prices of used copies -- my apologies!) We also had a really interesting Twitter Spaces discussion of both the book -- and on NeXT more generally.[1]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/226316.Steve_Jobs_the...

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces/blob/master/...

Also, where are my manners?! Really glad you're enjoying our Twitter Spaces[0] -- and thank you for the kind words!

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces

I think you're on the right track. I am similar to you and not so skilled at low level OS development. There is an educational OS called PIOS from Yale's CS department with specific goals in mind, but it boots from metal so the code is a great resource. Here's the code: https://github.com/bford/PIOS

Also, you could try reading the Plan 9 source code.

(I would say the code is what you're after now, but in case you are interested in more of the theory of why it's designed that way, you can check out the research paper here: https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/)