Linked by J. Scott Edwards on Fri 17th Dec 2004 18:51 UTC
Every hard-core OS aficionado has done it: Laid out a grand scheme for creating the perfect OS. Taking all the best features and attributes from the OSes we love, and making sure to assiduously avoid the pitfalls of the OSes we don't. Maybe our goals were modest, and we just wanted a slightly tweaked version of an existing OS. But sometimes we're feeling ambitious, and we have large, creative ideas for revolutionizing computing. Long-time OSNews reader and contributor J. Scott Edwards just couldn't help himself, and he has set about to not only plan, but to try to build his dream OS.
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"Erm, if you haven't checked out Squeak (a smalltalk computing environment) and SqueakNOS (Squeak with "no" OS underneath) you really should. They've been doing a lot of the stuff you mention for year"
Being a Squeak fan and user for a while and being fair at the same time, I should point out that Squeak (regardless of how innovative it is) is still far from being a practical Operating system, and SqueakNOS project last update was 2001, the number of developers never reached 4 and after almost 4 years it is still in pre alpha status. Although Squeak has many neat things, I think starting another project and reusing those ideas towards operating systems should not be discouraged at all.
KeyKos has done some good job as a proof of concept, but as you mentioned it was just an academic project and we don't see anybody using it in practice nowadays (and it wasn't even the first one Apertos and many others did started before that).
if the fact that somebody has done something similar before could stop everybody, We wouldn't have Linux, Apple, Ferrari and all of the other cool things that we have today, because most of them were based on previously existing ideas.