[dba-Tech] XP replacement?

Hi Arthur:

It does like it always takes. Years of dedication, little or no family life and an absolute obsession to produce results.

Sort of like writing a book.   

A friend wrote an entire OS, called Oasis, on top of the 68000 chip. The OS was insanely fast and was fully pre-emptive multi-tasking, really time, multi-user and multi-machine system and had a full GUI with the first parallel processing programming language I had ever seen. My friend worked on it, virtual non-stop from 1988 to 1994 before poor health stopped him. I said that he should have built his OS on the Intel chip but he figured that the 68000 chip was so far superior that the market would eventually see the obvious...sadly it did not.

I checked to see whether the OS has even a mention on the web but sadly, not a link.

Back in the day, we sold over a hundred copies of the OS, at an Atari convention, in Toronto....so there may still be some copies around.
     
Jim
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:06:50 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] XP replacement?

How does one write an OS? I feel so old and so out of the loop. Perhaps I
should just hang up my spurs and give it all up. Time was, I deemed myself
talented. Those times are long gone. O well.

Arthur the Ancient


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen <
hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote:

> There is ReactOS, but I haven't personally used it, so I can't say more
> than that:
>
> ReactOS® is a free open source operating system based on the best design
> principles found in the Windows NT® architecture (Windows versions such as
> Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 are built on Windows NT
> architecture). Written completely from scratch, ReactOS is not a Linux
> based system, and shares none of theUNIX architecture.
>
> The main goal of the ReactOS® project is to provide an operating system
> which is binary compatible with Windows. This will allow your Windows®
> applications and drivers to run as they would on your Windows system.
> Additionally, the look and feel of the Windows operating system is used,
> such that people accustomed to the familiar user interface of Windows®
> would find using ReactOS straightforward. The ultimate goal of ReactOS® is
> to allow you to use it as alternative to Windows® without the need to
> change software you are used to.
>
> ReactOS 0.3.15 is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete
> and isrecommended only for evaluation and testing purposes.
>
>
>
> - Hans
>
>
> > On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > In reality, I tend to agree with you. My personal route is to go Linux,
> Ubuntu Linux for that matter but there are many other distros that are just
> as easy to install and maintain...I would go so far as to say these
> products are easier to install and maintain than Windows...but being over
> 35 years in the business hardly makes me a user like "Joe Public" and so my
> normal is slightly skewed.
> >
> > The Linux route is terrifying for many, who have lived and learned the
> Windows ways for over twenty years...to get a user to leave the world they
> have grown up in is almost impossible.  OTOH, I am becoming more
> comfortable using Linux every day...I like fast internet, browsing, a
> decent Windows like GUI, Excel, Word, Power-point, all fully
> compatible...my versions are just named Libra Calc, Writer and
> Impress...and these products are hardly bleeding edge and are 100 percent
> compatible.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 10:32:43 AM
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] XP replacement?
> >
> >> On 2014-02-05 10:54 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> >> Hi All:
> >>
> >> ASUS is selling, what it calls the XP replacement. Is the world ready
> for Android (Linux) to replace Window?
> >>
> >>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/xp-replacement-179-asus-chromebox-is-most-powerful-chrome-device-to-date/#ftag=RSS56d97e7
> >
> > If you're willing to pay usage fees for the rest of your life to the
> > server farm that implements your "cloud", sure, but most XP users, I
> > think, have a different set of requirements---fast networking browsing &
> > email and a decent Windows-like GUI with Excel2000-fully-compatible
> > spreadsheet, PowerPoint2000-fully-compatible presentation software, and
> > Word2000-fully-compatible word processing. Thats the 31% or so of
> > current Windows users who still run XP, ie many millions who feel no
> > compulsion to be near the bleeding edge but are just trying to get their
> > 'puter work done with minimum fuss----a huge market for an open source
> > implementation of "Windows". What seems 'rilly odd to me is that no *Nix
> > OS vendor has yet produced what these people need.
> >
> > PB
> >
> > -----
> >
> >>
> >> Jim
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