> That's because our operating systems treat user input as a soft real time problem when actually it should be a hard real time problem. Please expand on your

> That's because our operating systems treat user input as a soft real time problem when actually it should be a hard real time problem. Please expand on your reasoning here. Maybe hard realtime is optimal for a kiosk or appliance, but a general purpose OS treating "user input" as a hard interrupt seems problematic. I see merit in your position if we had a sub-category of "interactive OS" for general purpose end-user devices.