Are you looking for a new Operating System 272

I wrote an operating system for a Computer Control Corporation DDP-224 computer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It took about a year to have it ready to use, and several years of fine-tuning. Part of the trouble was that the machine had only 16384 24-bit words of RAM (you could get 32768 words, but we could not afford it). We had to do real-time process control of a television camera (we got 2 bytes-microsecond from that, and we could not tell it to wait, we had to take the data as it came), and a TV monitor that was watched by a 35mm ArriFlex computer-controlled movie camera. Quite a challenge in those days.

But to write a new OS as an act of vanity seems an awful lot of trouble for too small a reward. Other than bragging rights, what do you hope to get out of this? What faults in existing operating systems do you wish to correct? What gap in the necessary features list do you propose to fill? If Microsoft is your target, why not become a co-developer of the Linux kernel or a member of the GNU project?

My brother-in-law is a professor of computer science and for a long time he buttigned his first-year Ph.D. candidates the task of designing a higher level language and building a compiler for it. So they did not pick too trivial a language, he told them the next year's buttignment: design an operating system and program it in the language you did the previous year, and build and debug that. Now I doubt many people actually used those languages or operating systems.

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