13 Jun
2016
13 Jun
'16
4:56 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once stated:
What do you feel is still missing from OS-X today? About the only thing I
can think of is the unique file system, where each file had a data and a
resource fork.
System 9.x
and before are
"something different" for me, a break from my mostly hardcore CLI
existence.
Yes, true. An OS I still miss, for all its instability and quirkiness.
I'd love to see a modern FOSS recreation, at least of the concept and
the style, even if it was binary-incompatible. I wish the Star Trek project had come to some kind of
fruition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
Reading that, it sounds like it would have been much like early
Windows---an application that would run on top of MS-DOS (or in this case,
DR-DOS).
-spc