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Operating system that eats other operating systems 2016-07-31 05:50:48 Post No. 55844210
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Operating system that eats other operating systems
Anonymous
2016-07-31 05:50:48
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The biggest problem with making a new, modern operating system is that with each passing year there's countless more things to be compatible with.
What if a new operating system completely ignored that need, and put all work into an automated system that cannibalises code from other operating systems?
>new OS can't read .png files
>OS makes Windows open a png file and looks at what code runs
>strips down the code as barebones as possible, by playing around in a sandbox and seeing what it can get rid of while still producing the same result
While that sort of code reading algorithm would have to be wondorously effective, by this point it seems more practical to make then a new operating system that does things in the old way.
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>>55844210
There's no simple way to do this automatically, but it still happens in the form of open source programs being copied across to different OSs.
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>>55845188
No simple way, but even if you have to throw millions of dollars at the problem, putting a fourth competitor in the OS market would certainly be a worthy achievement.
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>>55844210
R E D O X OS
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The Rust operating system.
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>>55845866
So is it called Redox or Rust, and what are you on about anyway?
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>>55844210
>strips down the code as barebones as possible, by playing around in a sandbox and seeing what it can get rid of while still producing the same result
You need strong ai for that
good luck
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>>55847139
Alternatively it could just sandbox any information targeted at the operating system.
e.g. if it asks to write to a particular register, create that register and write to it.
Unless the program never reads from the register, then just ignore it.
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>tfw no wolfgirl gf
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