Star Building The Next Generation, Part 1: Hardware
Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 13th Jul 2004 21:56 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems After personal computers arrived in the 1970's they went through a series of revolutionary changes delivered by a series of different platforms. It's been over a decade since we've seen anything truly revolutionary, will we see a revolution again? I believe we could not only see revolution again, we could build it today.
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by Roguelazer on Tue 13th Jul 2004 22:35 UTC

>> When these platforms arrived everything was done in-house,
>> and I mean everything: Hardware, Casing, OS, Applications,
>> Development environment and Compiler. Nobody does all of
>> that today and nobody has since 1994s BeBox when Be inc.
>> had to create an entire system from the OS core to the
>> media player and app-lets which ran on top.

Software wise, I'd say that SkyOS fits your bill of "in-house". Perhaps you should have done a little more research on some of this?

In general, this is a pretty good article. It'll be worth reading the "Part II".