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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by zokier on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:22PM (#26068110)
I went through the slides, saw bunch of pictures of old computers, but where is the proposal?
Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by isaacimagine on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:36PM (#26068291)
The Google Doc has the proposal at the bottom. Basically, take the bottom half of Oberon and slap on the top half of Squeak*, bara-bim bara-boom - you've a next-gen OS.

*Or SBCL + Dylan

The whole schpiel is to make a high-level interactive OS / computing environment that straddles the line between interpreter and compiler. The whole is is run in-memory, and can be snapshotted and restored quickly. No filesystem, just RAM.

Interesting idea, I guess :)

Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by lproven on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:42AM (#26078734)
[Author of the piece here]

Thanks!

I should have expected that so many people wouldn't listen or read it, just look at the pictures... >_<