To see another way that operating systems (could) have gone, you could read about Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system that Zurich university still uses and develops o

To see another way that operating systems (could) have gone, you could read about Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system that Zurich university still uses and develops on. He & Jurg Gutknecht designed/built the system from processor & peripherals to the language and end user applications. Total stack consistency. * a better motivation: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ * Project Oberon pdf: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ * development branch head: http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/ http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/