Computer scientists seem to reinvent the wheel quite often. For the more cynical observers every new Remote-Procedure-Call implementation looks quite like CORBA or Sun-RPC, but under a different name, different interfaces and - more often than not - some restricted features or inefficiencies....

For quite some time I've been working on a prototypic operating system, PiOS (previously PilotOS) [1]. I've been writing articles earlier about processes [2][3] and I want to discuss the current state here. Additional to a rewrite of most of the code, so removing the assembler-code and...