operating systems i believe were created to provide a simplified way to run newer programs without reprogramming the entire computer or parts of it... plus, assembly programming becomes tedious after a while... can you tell me how many instructions does a sun sparc or intel x386 have??
Not sure what and why you are asking
Spark - 3 to 32
i386 - 32
except for network data i/o, all external i/o is through visual means... i mean visual and not just optic... so all current i/o standards, right from rs-232c to the latest usb need not be used... translate that to making obsolete the capitalist factory lines producing interfaces for those standards, imagine the reassignment of people in those factories,
imagine how many useless programmers will go out of jobs.
Probably many like you.
There is difference between application and hardware interaction and application and user interaction.
For enduser the User experience matters to make things happen using the awesome computing that you are talking about.
the os design has a new internet architecture too, simpler than the existing and based on peer-to-peer but will have bridge facility to connect to current one.
just two of the things to simplify computing.
Please read SDLC and STM methodology, current world is not built on some dream space, where you just do a format and reinstall things.
Just wondering if you have developed and supported any application that has seen life of 10yrs or more.
sure, and that must be the intent... but what the capitalist industry has done is mostly kept churning the same old complicated way of computing, not daring to radically innovate, giving people unnecessary usages ( specifically vid games and cell phones ) so that they can keep using the obsolete way of computing but with more "advanced" os and microprocessor... example, intel i9 or whichever is their latest processor... people spend their energies and money needlessly buying useless stuff.
Most moronic thought processing
If you dont see something that doest mean its not happening.
Secondly if you dont use that doesnt mean its unnecessary for others.
Finally Linux platform is not run buy some capitalist industry guy, its an opensource operating system, which has been ported when ever required. And probably its been ported for so many architecture that no other OS can come close to that.
And for your kind information, unlike other industries, Computer Industry is loyal only to innovation and not to any capitalist industry, if you dont innovate you cannot survive others will throw you out.
why?? won't application programs and newer application areas have come with a new os??
But if all the developers are busy in building OS, then who will build the newer applications
i was talking of future human explorations of space, specifically the two moons of mars, and whether linux ( however much "real time" ) can be relied upon to keep humans safe... presently, as far as i know, life-critical medical instruments don't run linux in whichever form.
Why do you think that when future human whould go to mars will be using a linux version of 2015 or older?
Obviously if they have plans for moons of mars, they will build all required infrastructure around it and that could include development and porting of Linux or it could be there custom system.
around year 2000 was a earlier version of qnx os 6 which could off a floppy drive and had all basic facilities, and it was so much more responsive and reliable than linux can ever be even now.
i got a qnx cd from pcquest magazine.
Somebody said same for DOS too two decade ago, unfortunately i dont see DOS anymore.
Until you can understand whats the difference between Linux as OS Platform and other generic OS, things will never make sense to you. Please dont look from point of view how it computes, but look it from point of view of how its implemented.
i must say, iot is a bad idea... hackers doing a ddos attack on your fridge ( even with qnx os installed ) will totally defeat the purpose of iot.
Early 1900's someone said same for automobiles, drivers are crashing into your home, society and its like letting a killer machine roaming freely in society, which can be turned hostile by anyone.
Going by your logic, we should have be using camels today to commute...
When you try to argue, please try to make sensible, its hard to explain things when its nonsense based on expectations missing realities.
Finally its Android (based out of Linux) is running and ruling smart phone market and we all know what happen to Blackberry (Owner of QNX and made blackberry 10 based on it)