ideal operating system was death blow to unix g day windows nt is a step forward but not by much i guess for dos users who think multi tasking is really neat add puke here and are overjoyed to be able to use more than k of memory its a major improvement for windows users its more like an upgrade with facilities most unix users take for granted most of windows users only use pcs for text processing or running rd party applications anyway so the operating system features are not even a real issue my ideal operating system binary compatible across all plaforms it should recognize binaries and configure on the fly so i don t have to have bin mac bin dos bin dec bin sun bin hp etc multi cpu so i can use the cpus on my pc and w s and mac and transputers and dsps i don t know a single site which has gone for a single vendor i am not going to trade in mflops per h transputer or ultra fast fft on dsp chips note nt runs on symmetric multi cpu systems built in portable gui graphics tools you can call drawbutton or drawline and it does the same thing no matter what platform or display it should also translate graphics commands on the fly so i can use pc graphics s w on my workstation and x software on my pc i think guis are not just nice to have but essential configurable front end so you can make it look like unix or dos or nt or os and run shell scripts or command bat files object oriented so i can program easily under it and not have to re invent the wheel if the networking is not up to scratch or my application needs to access source object code on the fly in other words it should have some ai capability that and a tight clean kernel so you can actually understand it anyone know of something like this adios ata mail dr ata etemadi blackett laboratory space and atmospheric physics group imperial college of science technology and medicine internet arpanet earn bitnet atae spva ph ic ac uk or ata c mssl ucl ac uk span spva atae or msslc atae
