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Quoted from <740@eneevax.UUCP> ["Re: Favorite operating systems query"], by umdhep@eneevax.UUCP...
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| VMS is the nicest operating system I've ever used (out of a sample of
| about 7, which isn't all that many). Period. I just wanted to clarify
| and correct the points made in the parent articles.  Most of the
| complaints that I hear fro
+---------------------------^   Does anyone see a line-eater around?

I don't have ANY experience with VMS, so I cannot comment.  I am familiar with
Unix and have used TOPS-20; Unix I like for its simplicity and power, TOPS-20
for its user interface (but the CLI reminds me of CP/M-80 <ecch!>).  Neither
is perfect.

I think it's about time for another Unix-birthing type of brainstorm:  someone
sit down and write a new operating system using the basic principles of Unix,
combined with all that we have learned in 16 years.  Since it'd be a new
operating system, the writers wouldn't have to maintain ``compatibility'' with
the various mistakes taht Unix has accumulated; although I'd suggest
compatibility libraries to (attempt to) translate Unix facilities into
equivalent ones in the new OS.

I'd try my hand at it myself, but the only computers I can program for this
purpose are an ITT XTRA (nice machine, but a multitasking OS for an 8088
is a contradiction in terms, Xenix notwithstanding) and a TRS-80 Model I
(nice processor, TERRIBLE machine!).  I'd be shot at dawn if I tried to use
TDI'd P/60 for the experiment -- although it'd be a nice machine if I could
get my hands on one of my own...

Anyone know if maybe this new genesis is already going on?

--Brandon
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