I remember people used to say, "Emacs is a nice OS, what it lacks is a good editor". While reading the Ultimate OS paper I was thinking about Emacs. It already exists.
Same. I've been reading through the book at project oberon and really like reading about the design decisions that went into it. I also think its UI is a great starting point to reason about a touch based IDE.
Already done! AOS was written in 2002, well before Android, and included a multithreaded ZUI by default (along with FAST native module compilation and dynamic linking).
Shame google didn't use it instead of Android, they had to invent Go to get back some of the AOS advantages.
