<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 20, 2015, at 3:03 PM, William Dillon via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Though it might sound a little silly (because why not run linux), but starting with a beagle bone black would not be a terrible way to begin with bare metal work. It has plenty of RAM, you know that LLVM writes good machine code for it, it has JTAG accessible, it’s inexpensive, etc...</span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I never thought I’d say this, but $50 seems kind of expensive for a computer :) The specs look like the Raspberry Pi 2 which is closer to $30. Me, I’m waiting for my $9 C.H.I.P. (similar specs) that I Kickstarted to arrive :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Writing a kernel would be awesome. I’ve been reading <i class="">Operating Systems Design And Implementation</i>, “the MINIX book”, which is a pretty clear introduction to Unix-like OSs, but of course the kernel source code it walks through is a mix of C and x86 asm, and worse, it’s ten years behind the current MINIX3 kernel sourcebase. But it could be rewritten in Swift… :) And the great thing is that if you got the kernel running, you could then drop the whole rest of MINIX on top of it and instantly have a working BSD-like UNIX with a shell, filesystem, networking…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>