Today's City Research. TheOS.

Today I've decided to announce a new project I'm undertaking, among several, in my city research project. Of course a project such as this will have its own computer design and software. I've been working for years on my own microprocessor concept that I call mPCc. Of course for a variety of reasons the city project will indeed have it's own operating system and I call it TheOS. Microsoft and Intel will not do and some of the reasons you are probably well aware of.

I've decided that since a operating system can take quite some time to develop that it would be in the best interest of the city and the computer research if TheOS and the programming language I call G++ was already in existence and functional when it came time to test mPCc. TheOS will be such that it could be transportable to any computer design yet I intend to develop it on a Pentium platform. It will be fault tolerant and will support multitasking and multiple cores. The GUI will be different but underneath is were it will get really different. No it will not be able to run Windows software and will likely not even run windows based device drivers. The operational philosophy is just to different. However I do believe it likely that their will be G++ Wizards that will take windows based device drivers and extract usable data there from and construct the appropiate device driver for TheOS.

So one might say that TheOS doesn't stand a chance against monster Microsoft. I say think again. If an operating system and supplied software has a word processor, can play audio and video and has the ability to get on the web and surf then I say you have a sizable chunk of the market because this is all most people do anyway. Then their will also be game support.

Then their is the improved security of TheOS. Another factor in favor of TheOS is that it wont have the overhead baggage from having to continue supporting 20+ year old legacy applications. TheOS will be faster. The fact is because of this Microsoft tends to be 2 to 5 years behind Intel in implementing new features Intel devises. I know this from personal experience. The fact is Windows is a 20 year old patchwork that just isn't thought out to well and the fact is that the Linux based alternatives are no improvement.

Actually TheOS is intended to be for the city project computers and the decision to go to the outside public with it hasn't been made yet but if it does this is the intended business model. It will be free so as to build market share. The money comes with the consulting. If anybody needs any help then they have to hire a consultant. This could be great for anyone who wants to run their own small business. Also I intend to launch an advertiser supported website that will provide all manner of support information. This will be an advertiser supported operating system so to speak.

When will it be ready you ask? This is technology. It will be ready when it is ready.