4 ms·
Well, for one thing, you can explore computing ideas and paradigms that fall outside the realm of UNIX. What if instead of a filesystem, there was a persistant
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Well, for one thing, you can explore computing ideas and paradigms that fall outside the realm of UNIX. What if instead of a filesystem, there was a persistant collection of live objects (with attributes and functions and everything), like Smalltalk? How about a system where there's a unified abstraction for both network and local I/O, ala plan9?
How about some new idea that hasn't been tried before? Maybe you'll find a better way of doing things.
- fuball63 10y agoThis is where the education part is also helpful. It's been so long since I made a primitive OS that I wouldn't even know where to improve. But even some of the concepts in TempleOS are fascinating.
- spc476 10y agoWell, there's Synthesis OS (http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/ http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/), a "just in time" operating system that can recompile itself on the fly to provide customized system calls.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoSee? that's fascinating. My unix box handles the day-to-day, but the future is coming, and I can't wait.
- spc476 10y agoThat particular future has been around for 25 years.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThat one has been, yes. Others have not.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThe funny thing is I was going ro reply to qwerty with that exact OS but thought it's shown up in comments too often. So, I didnt. Then it still surprises people when you do. Maybe I need to keep posting it when people ask these questions if it consistently has such an effect. Maybe see about getting the author over here too while we're at it.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIt never showed up when I was browsing HN... >Maybe I need to keep posting it when people ask these questions if it consistently has such an effect That's what I do. It seems to usually work.