26 Jul
2001
26 Jul
'01
6:25 p.m.
What I'd like to see is a community effort to make
a new OS that does
what needs to be done without worrying about being compatible with
something that currently exists.
Man, I'd really like to do that someday. I've thought about that
particular subject a lot for nearly as long as I've had to interact with
an operating system.
Imagine, a system that incorporates all the good ideas and none of the bad
ones, is ultra-powerful for smart people but simple enough for idiots,
doesn't have anything to be backwards-compatible with, and runs on
anything. Please excuse me while I wipe this puddle of drool off the
floor.
ASCII
One of my crazy ideas is how to solve the internationalization problem.
Use extended ASCII or some now 8-bit-wided character set, and declare
English to be the official international language of the platform. Screw
this Unicode crap.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com