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What I loved about BeOS was the multithreaded user interface. Imagine and office with a single computer with dozens of gigs of RAM and 128 cores could do where
by nickbauman 9y ago
What I loved about BeOS was the multithreaded user interface. Imagine and office with a single computer with dozens of gigs of RAM and 128 cores could do where everyone could collaborate on the same screen (50 feet wide) at once. Kinda like SunRay on steroids.
- bringtheaction 9y agoYes! I've been thinking about this occasionally. I have decided that when I get time I will build on FreeBSD (my favorite operating system) and make a shared screen multi user graphical desktop that supports multiple keyboards and mouses at the same time, and there will be a permission system so that people are only allowed to interact or obscure the windows of others if they get their permission.
- nickbauman 9y agoBut there's only one GUI thread. It wouldn't work.
- bringtheaction 9y agoI'll write my own GUI layer from scratch.
- nerdponx 9y agoThat sounds like a godawful nightmare.
- nickbauman 9y agoUntil you personally need 64 cores for a particular calculation while everyone else is just checking their emails...
- kirykl 9y agosounds like a mainframe
- monocasa 9y agosounds like warehouse scale computing, imo.