About OSx

[Martin Baxter]

Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> 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
> 

Ahem,

Sorry Joe, but you're too late, Microsoft apparently has applied for a 
patent on it.

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Martin Baxter