Comment by andrewstuart

2 years ago

I think you underestimate the amount of functionality in something like the Linux kernel and how much work it would take to recreate even a small percentage of it.

I was a huge BeOS fan at the time, but in retrospect it was more like a vertical slice demo of an operating system. There was so much missing features and technical debt that fleshing it out would have been 90% of the work.