[Cuis-dev] Morphic's design

ken.dickey at whidbey.com ken.dickey at whidbey.com
Sat Aug 26 06:55:09 PDT 2023


Another solution strategy is "take it out to the next level and solve 
the problem in the wider context"

Microkernel OSs "send messages" to implement device drivers in user 
mode.  So a crashing driver (think debug!) does not trash the kernel.

Work has been done to allow _multiple OSs_ to share a window system.

   https://genode-labs.com/publications/nitpicker-secure-gui-2005.pdf

With the proper support, having the rendering "driver" as a separate 
process which gets drawing messages from Morphic objects could be an 
interesting project.

Making it "fast enough" is something the microkernel folks have been 
working on for some time..

$0.02,
-KenD


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