About OSx

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

While we're talking about OSs, I'd like to toss out some ideas I had  
back in the Windows 95 days, when it became pretty obvious that the  
computer world was about to travel down a very rocky road. Of course,  
this was prior to the advent of the Internet as we know it today.

I wanted someone to implement an OS that came in stages.

One, a very basic one that got the computer up and running, but did  
little else. No frills. It would have only the most basic features.  
One would boot up using this if you were planning to focus on text  
editing. Of course, this was back in the days of the floppy disk and  
no hard drives to speak of. And speed didn't even exist.

You could then add features and capabilities by opening additional  
modules if you planned to do other things. Not just one, but several.

The biggest advantage of something like this was cost. The basic boot  
up module would have a shareware level cost. As would the additional  
ones. I figured that someone must see this as a method and that it  
would eventually be done. It wasn't. I still think it is a great  
concept. In fact, since I know so little about the Open Source field,  
that may be what people are doing. In Linux???? Search me.

Joe Wilkins