Lord Kalthorn
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I was sitting down and thinking - what makes an OS?
What does make an OS - well I think we all know that it is a huge array of different files comprising of many hundreds of millions of lines of code which allow a Computer to do what it does best - cater to whatever whims we may have! Anything from us wanting to download a Movie to us wanting to view a Photo, to us even wanting to Spell Check a huge Word Document. Although most of these things you need extentions to the basic OS they are all controlled at the bottom by this huge package of Programs.
So, I thought - There's a group of highly intelligent people on a Forum I know who would just die to start thinking about this! Lets face it - We've all thought about starting on designing an Operating System from scratch (at least I have) but we have to face up to the fact that we are not realistically single handedly going to design an OS!
We have a nice mix of opinions here - and we are all realistic - what does an OS need? What is possible which no other OS has - what does one need which one has but one doesn't? Which bits of Operating Systems are good; which are bad; which are obsolete?
I think this will be very interesting! Names would be pretty interesting too! (Anything but OS X!As far as I know Windows is accounted for already!)
What does make an OS - well I think we all know that it is a huge array of different files comprising of many hundreds of millions of lines of code which allow a Computer to do what it does best - cater to whatever whims we may have! Anything from us wanting to download a Movie to us wanting to view a Photo, to us even wanting to Spell Check a huge Word Document. Although most of these things you need extentions to the basic OS they are all controlled at the bottom by this huge package of Programs.
So, I thought - There's a group of highly intelligent people on a Forum I know who would just die to start thinking about this! Lets face it - We've all thought about starting on designing an Operating System from scratch (at least I have) but we have to face up to the fact that we are not realistically single handedly going to design an OS!
We have a nice mix of opinions here - and we are all realistic - what does an OS need? What is possible which no other OS has - what does one need which one has but one doesn't? Which bits of Operating Systems are good; which are bad; which are obsolete?
I think this will be very interesting! Names would be pretty interesting too! (Anything but OS X!As far as I know Windows is accounted for already!)