No ideas in particular, I just fondly remember for example the responsiveness of the Amiga - PCs still don't seem to be as solid clock-wise, and when you get into running apps in a browser it seems like the multiple layers of abstraction are really obvious. And that's just on a desktop - Android is even worse! A pretty horrible laggy UI, and once you get into the horrific disaster that is Android development the underlying cause kind of reveals itself.
Imagine the tightness of a mobile OS running close to the metal and how responsive that device could feel. You used to be able to switch on a device and the OS would immediately be there - indeed embedded devices are often still like this.
Perhaps I'm just being too nostalgic though, and I realise Amiga OS was missing essential things like memory protection etc. that we now take for granted.
Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?
by imtringued on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:17AM
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Isn't that basically what kubernetes is supposed to solve? I will admit my attempts to use it have been unsuccessful but the point still stands: There is no need for a completely new operating system.
Re:Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?
by convolvatron on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:54PM
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we totally agree. i think things could be alot better. but even though I have alot of big ideas nothing seems to justify someone adopting such a thing. even completely ignoring the cost of building and testing it.
maybe some foundational advance in real security. better abstractions and performance aren't enough.
i agree with you that we can do better, but as other people have commented, that wound is pretty much healed over.
integrated distributed management, process migration, and radically simplified OS state might put some devops people out of a job..but the industry doesnt like to take hops that large. the configuration and deployment hodgepodge is 'good enough'
did you have some specific ideas you think would be interested enough to drive adoption?