Comment by written-beyond
8 hours ago
Idk I still find low level OS stuff super interesting because it hasn't had a rework in so long. With everything we've learnt since the age of modern computing, drives larger than a few MBs, super fast memory and fast cryptography to name a few.
It's interesting to imagine a new OS that incorporates these changes from it's infancy.
I appreciate all of the effort put in by Linux, BSD, Android, QNX and closed source OSs' have put in to building upon existing ideas and innovating gradually on them. But man I really want to see something better than everything is a file. I really enjoyed the stuff BeOS was pitching.
Well, on the file system side BeOS was pitching "virtual folders" that are really no different than what plan9 provides.