glockner@cs.ucsd.edu (Alexander Glockner) (04/28/88)
[ Send replies to the author (glockner%cs@ucsd.edu), he can summarize. --DL ]
After staying in the lab too long one night, my friends and I
began discussing some problems with operating systems we had used...
eventually the question came up:
"What would the `operating system from Hell' look like?"
That's right, pretend that you were given _carte blanche_ to design
an absolutely atrocious operating system. What would you put in it?
Two restrictions:
1) No replies that it already exists, although you may feel free
to borrow whatever "features" you want.
2) No trivial wasting of resources either, please. You may use
inefficient algorithms, however; for instance, Bentley's
O(n! times n-squared) sort. (You don't know what that is? Shame
on you! Think about it before sending me e-mail.)
Thanks -- Alex (not an alias for the moderator)
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Alexander Glockner | Faced with information overload, we have
glockner%cs@ucsd.edu | no alternative but pattern recognition.
{...}!sdcsvax!glockner | -- Marshall McLuhan
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