OpenEuphoria

Re: EuOS and DOS

• Posted by irv at ELLIJAY.COM Oct 11, 1998
• 611 views

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 07:24:32 -0400, Peter Blue <PeterBlue at COMPUSERVE.COM>
wrote:

>Hi Euphorians,
>
>You can't create an operating system with Euphoria because it needs one in
>order to run, but you could create a really nice GUI with it - or you could
>be really innovative like combine a word-processor, spread-sheet and
>database in one program removing the need to have three or more programs.

>Have you ever noticed on Star Trek or Babylon 5 that they never have to
>worry about what program to run or what file to access - all they do is ask
>the computer and it gives them what they want. I know current technology
>isn't quite up to that - but if you want to create a really new operating
>system, that could be a good place to start - Let DOS (or even Linux) and
>Machine code handle the low-level stuff and Euphoria can do the user
>interface.
>
Linux is stable - no Blue Screen of Death. Some of my clients have
(without prompting) asked if they can switch over to Linux. The recent
>involvement of Netscape and Intel in Red Hat is getting a lot of
attention, and I have converted my home computer to Linux.
>The main complaint I have about Windowz, is that it takes way too
much effort to achieve results, which when finished, look exactly
like every other Windowz program ever written.
Not that there is anything inherently wrong with a GUI, but please
not one that ads 8 - 10x more code just to support the Windowing
system. It's just too much trouble.
Irv








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