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jodrellblank
on Oct 24, 2009
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Herd Mentality
It should be a problem, otherwise the new OS would be so similar there would be little point in it existing...
GeneralMaximus
on Oct 24, 2009
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A POSIX compatibility layer should be enough. You can easily run UNIX programs on Windows using Cygwin, for example.
jodrellblank
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What you want is a new and innovative OS that is also backwards/cross compatible and standards compliant?
GeneralMaximus
on Oct 25, 2009
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Haiku actually does this. Haiku is not a UNIX, but there's a fairly complete POSIX layer for building UNIX programs. As far as I know, Syllable and SkyOS do something like this, too (I might be wrong, though).
eru
on Oct 24, 2009
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What's the problem? The standards compliant layer would perhaps just not be as fast as the native metaphors.
steveklabnik
on Oct 24, 2009
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You'd be surprised at what's possible. I'm actually working on one right now.
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