Re: New OS for MacOS, OS2 and Windows.

[Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@hypermall.com>]

Nathan Mates wrote:
> 
> In article <323BDB57.4D33@worldonline.nl>,
> rgsmit  <rgsmit@worldonline.nl> wrote:
> >New OS for MacOS, OS2 and Windows.
> 
>    Firstly, you're in the wrong place. That is, unless you intend
> to make it run on Apple II computers, which are not macs.
> 
> >We are working on an new operatingsystem for (personal)computers.
> >The intention is to make it better than MacOS, OS2 and Windows and to
> >give it far more possibilities.
> 
>    Others have been there, done that. Called Unix in all its variants.
> Linux is what I use; others may tend towards FreeBSD or NetBSD.

As much as I like about UNIX, I have to admit it is *not* the operating
system of the future. It's the OS of the past - it was put together so
well that it has hung in there. However, the OS of the future has yet to
be written.

>    I really don't think you understand how big a task writing a
> quality OS is.

This much is true.

> Sure, anyone can hack together something that does X in
> a weekend, but to do it right and get others to sign on is much
> harder. (BTW, linux kernel sources are something like 14MB, not to
> mention anything else. Even with a bunch of speed typists, typing
> that much in would take a darn long time. Then you need to try to
> compile and run it.)

I would say to any OS authors the following words - repeat them, for
they are important.

"MEMORY PROTECTION".

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