Hello, At these URLs there is an interesting article about why there is no commercial room for new operating systems any more.
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8162&page=1 http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8162&page=2 http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8162&page=3 It is interesting because it was written by a young french programmer whom TT met back 5 years ago and who now, after having gained a bit of experience, expresses the same opinions as Tony always expressed to me. AFAIK Emmanuel is in the league of those who understand the differences between today's mainstream technology and what could be done. He now also is in the league of those who stopped to dream. The chance of seing new concepts at operating system level are not obvious, they can commercially only be tested in a "product" ie hardware that can be touched by users/consumers. Then the problem is to define what product and how to finance the development. It can be an advantage to have a better kernel than others but then there will always be the drawback of drivers when new chips are already supplied with drivers for the "industry standard" OSes... Arnould WebMail / Magic OnLine http://www.magic.fr _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
