Operating system design notes

The following pages describe briefly ideas for creating a replacement operating system targeted primarily for desktop use. Some of the principles described stem from discussions with Jennifer Elaan regarding a proposed new operating system of Cy/VOS (Cybernetic Virtual Operating System), and thus some of the ideas and nomenclature will be hers. Detailed notes were added to the Cy/VOS wiki, which on investigation appears to have been created in 2004 and gone offline around 2007. There is no proposal here to create Cy/VOS or any other operating system, as society has passed the point of no return; these pages are just shouting into the emptiness.

The Cy/VOS wiki contained a vast amount of notes. There is no plan at present to recreate that level of information.

• Principles
• Architecture
  • API
  • Message passing
  • Multidimensional Filing System
  • Layer Config
  • Packages
  • Applications
  • Events
  • Components
  • Logging
• User interface
  • GUI
  • Display
  • Controls
  • Themes
• Comparisons
  • Macintosh
• Further reading
  • RISC OS