The same concerns multitasking, multithreading ,
shared libraries etc.
V7 already multitasks.
Why would you want shared libraries!?
BTW I have ported apout emulator to Coherent. What I
miss is "more" and
I have a small paging utility at
http://lava.net/~newsham/x/machine/more_v6.c
http://lava.net/~newsham/x/machine/more_v7.c
"vi". Editing with "cat" is
possible but not very useful. I am not going
to learn "ed".
Why?
Did You try to port "vi" to Unix Version 7
system ? I can
Why!?
Andrzej
If one wanted an architecturally clean and modern V7-like system
that ran on the PC they could always install Plan9. Of course if
you're porting V7 for the educational experience, more power to you.
Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/