In message <[email protected]>, Norman Dunbar
<[email protected]> writes
Hi Norman,
Something for everyone ... :-)
All of the things that you list are quite technical considerations.
Most users you want something that does something very well without them
having to bother too much about it.
Hence the embedded capabilities being shown by mobile phones and ipads,
etc.
The new way or working is moving towards being a more intuitive
interaction between human and machine - hence hand movement and touch,
etc.
So, a new OS would have to be a new paradigm, in the first place.
I may regret starting this, but as the subject says, what would you like
to see in QDOSMSQ given that we were starting from scratch with the
intention of writing a completely new OS?
Disclaimer: No, I'm NOT thinking of writing one!
For me, the following:
* Ability to hook into the OS from any language, Basic, Assembler, C,
whatever.
* A windowing system that is simple to use. From any language.
* Libraries that applications can link to at run time, as opposed to
static linking at compile time.
* Multitasking, obviously!
* A file system that is not restricted to 36 characters. See
http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2009/05/whats-wrong-with-this-file-system/
for a pseudo-rant on the matter.
* Industry standard floating point format.
* Industry standard graphics format(s) - PNG, for example. JPG if we
must! SVG would be nice.
* Speed and efficiency! ;-)
Cheers,
Norman.
--
Malcolm Cadman
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