On 17 Oct 97, Jerry Coffin wrote to Shane Day --
 PW> If any of your members are interesting in defecting to Australia to help
 PW> me write an OS, book your tickets now to avoid the Christmas rush.
 SD> What type of OS? GUI/Text?
 JC> Hopefully one written in C++, if the discussion of it is to be topical
 JC> here... 
Spoil-sport... 
FWIW, someone wrote an extremely simplistic malloc() and then proceeded to
rewrite PUNIX in C++.  Being the non-informed ignorant kiddie I am, I have no
idea HOW a monolithic (i.e. not microkernel) OS could possibly use OOP
principles to get anything done.
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