Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 13th Jul 2004 21:56 UTC
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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What about Copland? It wasn't finished, but it was written alone by Apple!
Also, RE: Revolutionary / Evolutionary, I agree that the most important factor in designing a fast, stable OS is to start from scratch, with backward compatability only in networking and file compatibility. If only the creators of NT had abandoned old software compatibility as part of the OS, and instead run old software in a slimmed down emulation layer, windows would currently be a lot faster and far more stable.