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Tbh I'm happy to see any new OS thats not just yet another heavily unix-inspired clone. We desperately need more fresh ideas in the OS world

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Given the execrable state of the Windows UI, I'd be excited to have modern Windows compatibility with a competent GUI on it. I'd be psyched if it looked like XP running with the "classic" UI.

I switched to "classic" mode so automatically on every install that I'd forgotten the Fisher-Price default one... which was still better than the current shitshow.

I thought that NT was also a Unix system. In any case Windows as a whole isn't terribly different from a Unix system. Unlike say Smalltalk.

No, NT was a re-engineering of the kernel, mostly with Mach-microkernel influence, but also with input from VMS.

I think the point is that people who whinge (like here) about Unix are actually complaining about Unix filesystems and user-space. I'm not so sure they care about how exactly privileged execution is partitioned (or not).

Not sure if it's true, but I've heard than WNT is VMS + 1, so to speak, with each letter "incremented". I believe the team behind WNT had previously worked on VMS.

Not really a fresh idea; this is instead a Windows NT clone, but certainly something different from the usual *nix OS projects.

very interesting take.

maybe with AI we can all get bespoke heuristic intelligent operating systems? these could be almost impossible to crack and exploit.

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