But better than DOS or open source. Therefore, since I'm giving lots of leeway to hardware guys I told them to build in the firmware for the devices so the operating system doesn't have to worry about it.
I then told the operating system guys to write one that fits on an old 3.5" floppy disk [read 2 or 3 megabytes] and does the same thing that Windows 98 does [or whatever Apples use these days]. Should be doable given the new firmware. Then a new layer [node is more proper] handles the fancy stuff like compilers and interpreters that normal everyday users don't even dream of, let alone touch; this node is for the computer guys themselves. Stand alone executables can then be both modular, portable, and sellable because they can fit to any user specification and easily written and debugged. That way, when something breaks your upper layers you don't have to wipe the hard drive, and if you want to install a new OS, it should take about a minute, even if you do have to wipe the hard drive. If all this development is done in parallel, we can get really useful stuff going in a few years. ;-)
