Hi S, (your mail software doesn't have your first name ;-)
We're glad to have you aboard, and I hope you'll stick around.
I don't think what you have here truly constitutes a design, it's really
just a vision. A design would lend itself more readily to a concrete
technical discussion.
You could sit down and design the whole thing by hand, but in that case,
why stop at the operating system? Redesign the hardware! Throw out the
old and busted x86 architechture and make something new!
VOS (our VOS) suffers from enough scope creep as it is, without getting
into the operating system business :-)
You have to start somewhere. The place we've chose is the networking
and computational layer and up. There's lots of interesting problems
involved in designing a distributed runtime that can support interactive
3D graphics. In fact, I'm going to try and sit down and write out some
of the grand plans for VOS right now, so watch your inbox.
(oh, for what it's worth, Virtual Operating System seems to be a
commercial mainframe OS made by a company called Stratus.)
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:36:54PM -0700, S Mattison wrote:
What I have, basically, is a design document, about an OS I have never been
capable of designing single-handedly. Sure, it's possible to build a
command-line operating system by one-self, perhaps build a GUI/windowing/API
engine by one-self, maybe to also build a 3d engine by one-self, and perhaps
also to build a virtual world by one-self (I personally think that if I had
the operating system itself, it would be a thousand times easier to build a
virtual world by one self), but to do all of them, I'm just not sure I can
do all of them together, and I certainly don't have the experience with any
(except maybe the building 3d worlds part; My roommates and I are making an
MMO, after all)...
So if I fit in here, or if I can help in betatesting, all the better.
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