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I remember people used to say, "Emacs is a nice OS, what it lacks is a good editor". While reading the Ultimate OS paper I was thinking about Emacs. It already
by jangid 7y ago
I remember people used to say, "Emacs is a nice OS, what it lacks is a good editor". While reading the Ultimate OS paper I was thinking about Emacs. It already exists.
- augustk 7y agoI was thinking about the Oberon operating system, which also already exists.
- uncletaco 7y agoSame. I've been reading through the book at project oberon and really like reading about the design decisions that went into it. I also think its UI is a great starting point to reason about a touch based IDE.
- alexisread 7y agoAlready done! AOS was written in 2002, well before Android, and included a multithreaded ZUI by default (along with FAST native module compilation and dynamic linking). Shame google didn't use it instead of Android, they had to invent Go to get back some of the AOS advantages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/72739 https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...