Re: New OS for MacOS, OS2 and Windows.

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

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. 

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

Nathan Mates

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