ExectOS Operating System
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The NT architecture is unmitigated bullshit. It itself was sort of inspired by VAX/VMS if memory serves, and to that degree that it is this is 1970s architecture. Look, I dev windows. There's a lot to like about it, but for god sake, don't keep it going. Microkernels are where its at. A message passing core is fundamental to making fully connectible operating systems. Something like MachOS or QNX. Why not refine an OS around POSIX? What the hell is so bad about POSIX? Apple stuff does fine with it. It's old, but it has withstood the test of time across far more platforms than NT ever has. Maybe I'm just crotchety, but NT like x86 needs to die, not have its shelf life extended. /flame-proof-pants
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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The NT architecture is unmitigated bullshit. It itself was sort of inspired by VAX/VMS if memory serves, and to that degree that it is this is 1970s architecture. Look, I dev windows. There's a lot to like about it, but for god sake, don't keep it going. Microkernels are where its at. A message passing core is fundamental to making fully connectible operating systems. Something like MachOS or QNX. Why not refine an OS around POSIX? What the hell is so bad about POSIX? Apple stuff does fine with it. It's old, but it has withstood the test of time across far more platforms than NT ever has. Maybe I'm just crotchety, but NT like x86 needs to die, not have its shelf life extended. /flame-proof-pants
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
The NT architecture has one big commercial advantage - it is running on more PCs (desktop, laptop) than any other O/S. Ditto for the x86 architecture. I agree that if we started from scratch, we could build a better CPU and O/S, the question being what software would run on them. For commercial reasons, the new CPU would have to emulate the x86 and the new O/S would have to support running Windows in some manner (maybe a VM). Apple managed to make the transition from x86 to their M-series partly because they paid attention to these points, and partly because they controlled both the hardware and the O/S. I don't see Microsoft developing a CPU, and if they developed one with Intel, there could be anti-trust issues involved. Windows has been ported to ARM and ARM64, but these are still much less popular (and have many fewer native software titles) than the x86 family. Like it or not, I expect that we are stuck with Windows and x86 for quite a while longer.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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The NT architecture has one big commercial advantage - it is running on more PCs (desktop, laptop) than any other O/S. Ditto for the x86 architecture. I agree that if we started from scratch, we could build a better CPU and O/S, the question being what software would run on them. For commercial reasons, the new CPU would have to emulate the x86 and the new O/S would have to support running Windows in some manner (maybe a VM). Apple managed to make the transition from x86 to their M-series partly because they paid attention to these points, and partly because they controlled both the hardware and the O/S. I don't see Microsoft developing a CPU, and if they developed one with Intel, there could be anti-trust issues involved. Windows has been ported to ARM and ARM64, but these are still much less popular (and have many fewer native software titles) than the x86 family. Like it or not, I expect that we are stuck with Windows and x86 for quite a while longer.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
It's one thing for it to endure. It's quite something else for some chucklef*cks to decide to go and make a completely new OS based on it. :mad:
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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It's one thing for it to endure. It's quite something else for some chucklef*cks to decide to go and make a completely new OS based on it. :mad:
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Why the anger? If a group of people wish to waste their time rebuilding Windows XP, why should you care? No one is forcing you to contribute...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Why the anger? If a group of people wish to waste their time rebuilding Windows XP, why should you care? No one is forcing you to contribute...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
There are some things that simply should not be inflicted on the world because it might actually be successful.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix