What the plans are for self hosting development tools?
Peter Tattam: If we’re successful with win32 compatibility, a wide range of development tools would come on line quickly as a result. I can currently run the Delphi 3.0 command line compiler and many other CLI Borland development tools directly in PetrOS so we are a fair way there already. I can even run Borland’s BP 7.0 under PetrOS DOS compatibility. Much of PetrOS is done with our in-house object Pascal compiler, and we will release these tools as standard with the OS at a later date. We need to use our own compiler as there aren’t many tools that allow an object oriented approach to interfacing drivers to the kernel (especially in Object Pascal :). 7. Are there plans to add a web browser on PetrOS? Peter Tattam: Of course, but we need to do the GUI first. There are a few Delphi based HTTP controls that might form a basis for this and we’ve done a bit of testing already to see what’s required. Ideally we could eventually run Netscape, IE or Opera natively from PetrOS, but programs o
