> What I'd like to see is a community effort to make a new OS that does
> what needs to be done without worrying about being compatible with
> something that currently exists.
Man, I'd really like to do that someday. I've thought about that
particular subject a lot for nearly as long as I've had to interact with
an operating system.
Imagine, a system that incorporates all the good ideas and none of the bad
ones, is ultra-powerful for smart people but simple enough for idiots,
doesn't have anything to be backwards-compatible with, and runs on
anything. Please excuse me while I wipe this puddle of drool off the
floor.
> ASCII
One of my crazy ideas is how to solve the internationalization problem.
Use extended ASCII or some now 8-bit-wided character set, and declare
English to be the official international language of the platform. Screw
this Unicode crap.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_subatomix.com
Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 01:25:51 BST