Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 6th Nov 2002 00:19 UTC
Yeah, I might be just re-inventing the wheel here, who knows? But I had this (original? I doubt it) idea a few months ago and I was meant to write about it for some time now. So, my idea is about creating a new operating system that is like none of the current ones. It would be so different, that porting applications from other "traditional" systems wouldn't be possible. But the gains would be much more important of what we would lose by implementing a brand new new system.
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This is basically the approach used by x-kernel and scout from the U of AZ (and now Princeton: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/nsg/scout/), and the Strings system which BeComm (http://www.becomm.com - but you probably won't get much technical info from their site) tried to commercialize, but that company was massively crippled in the financial meltdowns of 2000. Scout uses this approach to construct very efficient network devices, and Strings for multimedia and network applications. There are other similar systems I'm sure. From my work on these systems, I think this paradigm is delightfully useful for data-centric applications (protocols, video streams, things like that) but rather unuseful for traditional applications like photoshop. Which is allright by me.