Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Mon 5th Aug 2002 05:58 UTC
I've always been curious about how things work. When I was little, I annoyed my parents with millions of
questions. Why is the sky blue? How does water come out of the tap when you open it? Maybe I was born without the
mental switch that lets you be happy with using something, without trying to figure out how it works.
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More often then I like to see people are willing to make an new OS just because "<OS-de-jour> sucks!" . Well it may or it may be not. Windows NT was designed by former DEC system engineers with a lot of background in kernel development.
If you want to develop something better you need to be at least on par with those guys. True, a lot of water had flown since DEC R&D published their papers, but there is enough read about OS kernels to keep 14-years-old preoccupied till he/she gets his/her beer drinking permit.
Linus was college student when he started and he used Tanenbaum's book as a guide. That's a good approach for OS developer but it's not new anymore.
Strange that nobody quoted JLG on the subject:
"I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age."
And there was one another about writing multi-threaded drivers and growing hairs on your chest I cannot find on begroovy.