I write about this several times as at IT journalist the time. I remember interviewing Francis Charig a couple of times, who was - ISTR - MD of Tao Systems. It

I write about this several times as at IT journalist the time. I remember interviewing Francis Charig a couple of times, who was - ISTR - MD of Tao Systems. It was a tough one. The demos and the concept was absolutely beautiful and the claimed performance astonishing. It was an elegant idea. But I had no real, independently verifiable way of knowing whether it was bullshit. I seem to recall it started off being described initially on the CIX bulletin board (think dial-up, UK version of Reddit) in conference (subreddit) of its own. Initiially it looked like philosphical ramblings until several of the conference members twiiged 'hang on - youre talking about a real OS!'. Might have been Chris Hinsley who posted the text.