dhi

In the second video, I saw that you are doing message passing over channels and run everything in its own SIP.
I did a lot of programming for µnOS which is an OO OS written in C++ including a GC.
It also uses channels for message passing (without message contracts) just like QNX does.
So if every driver runs in it's own SIP, can I write a SIP by myself sending messages to the NIC SIP
to tell it to send raw ethernet packets to the net?
Or has the TCP/IP SIP exclusive rights to communicate to the NIC SIP?
In µnOS we dicided to compile device drivers to DLLs.
So the network service, which is a seperate process in user mode creates an instance of the device driver object(s)
in its own process space and uses a well-defined interface to access these driver object.
Only the network service has a channel over which the other applications can create and use network connections.

How about modularity and the extension of a certain system service?
Let's say your TCP/IP SIP currently supports IP, ICMP, ARP, TCP and UDP.
How would I extend it to support SCTP as well?
Can I write an extension module (e. g. in form of a C# class) that is loaded by the TCP/IP SIP at startup to support SCTP?
Or do I have to write the extension in form of another SIP?

I also saw that you are doing process creation, channel management and security inside the microkernel.
Did you thaught of implementing a SIP in user mode for doing stuff like that?
E. g. the QNX process manager does some of these things in user mode.

At all, you did a great job with Singularity!
I hope Microsoft stays tuned with it!

In the second video, I saw that you are doing message passing over channels and run everything in its own SIP.
I did a lot of programming for µnOS which is an OO OS written in C++ including a GC.
It also uses channels for message passing (without message contracts) just like QNX does.
So if every driver runs in it's own SIP, can I write a SIP by myself sending messages to the NIC SIP to tell it to send raw ethernet packets to the net?
Or has the TCP/IP SIP exclusive rights to communicate to the NIC SIP?
In µnOS we dicided to compile device drivers to DLLs.
So the network service, which is a seperate process in user mode creates an instance of the device driver object(s)
in its own process space and uses a well-defined interface to access these driver object.
Only the network service has a channel over which the other applications can create and use network connections.

How about modularity and the extension of a certain system service?
Let's say your TCP/IP SIP currently supports IP, ICMP, ARP, TCP and UDP.
How would I extend it to support SCTP as well?
Can I write an extension module (e. g. in form of a C# class) that is loaded by the TCP/IP SIP at startup to support SCTP?
Or do I have to write the extension in form of another SIP?

I also saw that you are doing process creation, channel management and security inside the microkernel.
Did you thaught of implementing a SIP in user mode for doing stuff like that?
E. g. the QNX process manager does some of these things in user mode.

At all, you did a great job with Singularity!
I hope Microsoft stays tuned with it!