I am migrating my ES/2 developer environment to a full OS/2 environment (previously it was on Windows). It will be developed from this point forward in an OS/2 4.5 developer environment running on native hardware (not a VM), with a second native hardware machine used for testing the code.
My goals are to use the OS/2 developer environment to get my kernel compiled, to create a stable serial interface between the OS/2 machine and my ES/2 machine so I can rapidly send updates to my kernel while it's running, to do remote debugging, and so on.
The code I've previously written in Windows will be ported to OS/2 and the Presentation Manager. I've written it generically all along as I originally was targeting Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD, so there is nothing Windows-specific to it that shouldn't be easily adapted to integrate well with OS/2.
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Again, if you have the skills, I would like to invite you to come and help out on this project. It's to be an offering of the skills and abilities God first gave us, and the opportunities He's given us since then to harness and hone them, to return them back to Him directly, and not for money, not for fame, not for personal glory, but because we have these interests, and we recognize all of our abilities come from Him.
Consider:
If someone gave you $10 million to build a company and some large campus, you would begin work and invite that person to be a part of all of your project, opening ceremonies, you'd give speeches which include parts like, "Without so-and-so, we wouldn't be here today." You would name a building after that person, or the whole campus even. There would be plaques commemorating that individual, with their picture here and there all around. The "About us..." documentation within the company would include references to that individual's generosity. And so on.
All I'm trying to do here with these projects of mine is give God His proper place in my life. He made the Earth, Sun, air, trees, animals, plants, everything, including me and you. It is desirous, and proper, to give Him all that He is rightly due with our lives.
ES/2 is to be a ground-up open-source OS/2-like operating system. The compilers I'm writing are ground-up open-source creations using some familiar languages as a starting point (assembly, C, Java, Julia, and others), but then extending them forward. And the same holds true for apps that will be developed which are similar to other apps.
All of these are ground-up, sanctified, purposeful efforts given over to Him acknowledging His rightful place in our lives.
Please ... look up to God. Look within your heart. And come and be a part of this project. Let His gifts to you shine outwardly to others in this endeavor, so that you can receive from Him the reward of your efforts given over to Him here in this world.
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Rick C. Hodgin