Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: "Sascha Kimmel" Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: RE: NEWBIE Question Date: 23 May 2000 16:53:33 -0000 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 62 Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <20000523165333.6837.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: "Sascha Kimmel" NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 959100828 17147675 255.255.255.255 (23 May 2000 16:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2000 16:53:48 GMT Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12350 > -----Original Message----- > From: Atle [mailto:trollet@skynet.be] > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 4:39 PM > To: usergroup@mjolner.dk > Subject: NEWBIE Question > > > Hello! I am more than a newbie, I don't know Beta at all. I am > planning to implement a Hi, > Task switcher for i386, that can support two-CPUs or more > Device drivers for some interrupt driven PC devices this is very low-level stuff. BTW what do you mean "for i386"? For Windows or Linux or...? There is no generic compiler available, because it is not possible to develop a OS-independet compiler if the language includes GUI-specific functions (sorry, patterns :) > and some other stuff, but this is what I want to do now. My question is: > > At this low level, is Beta as easy as C to work with? If you ask me, I would say no, not at all. In fact AFAIK it's not even possible to implement what you need in BETA, so that you would need to implement it as C code which is then called via BETA. > Are there free ELF-compatible Beta-compilers? The only compilers available are from Mjolner Informatics (www.mjolner.com) - have a look and download the version you need. > If I later wanted to implement Beta myself, is the language spec > available online? AFAIK it's only available in the BETA book (see below). > What is the best (?!?) book for learning Beta with the above > implementation task in mind? There are AFAIK currently only 2 (in words: two) books available, one in German and one in English. The English book is not available anymore and Mjolner is thinking about a reprint or releasing it as a PDF file - but don't ask me about the status - ask Mjolner directly @ info@mjolner.com > Thanks in advance for a clear and complete reply, I doubt this reply is complete but I hope I could help you! Regards, Sascha Kimmel