From: "Paul Ranson" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> > But which also means investing huge effort in competing with MS in their
> > current space may be futile, 'Unix' has a niche in the server end but I
> > think pursuing if for general purpose desktops on PCs is a hobby.
> >
>
> or conversely makes MS competing with free / OSS software futile.

MS are already there. 'free/OSS' is struggling to catch up. I'm not
convinved that 'free' is long term stable as long as the assumption is that
it will be developed by people working for free.

> Fine so get the Apple & BeOS people to help build a new gui.

Apple have the right approach. IMO.

> Operating Systems: Design and Implementation?

That's the one.

I think Minix and MicroWindows could be worth examination.

Paul

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