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Considering the use-cases, multi-tasking operating systems are not necessarily going to escape the trend toward information appliances.

In my opinion, if the workstation does survive, than a posix style OS similar to the abandoned HeliOS will become necessary again at some point... as Moore's law is effectively dead, and a 15% context-switching overhead on existing threading and mailbox models is silly.

Would I want to write one from scratch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

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