Our computers are big and powerful now, and at AAAS I came to the conclusion that Moore's First Law has about 50 years to run, while there are ways to circumvent Moore's Second Law (this will be in my reports). That argues enough computer power to make anything run fast. The cycles and memory will be out there. Perhaps it is time to START OVER with OS. Heck, I'd like to see Niklaus Wirth's Oberon and Modula 2 come back. I would even be interested in an OS that was written in and ran ADA as its assembly language. We are no longer constrained by memory and and cycles limits. I think it is time to break free from not only Microsoft but unintelligible code like C (which means we break free of LINUX and the other UNIX type systems too).
Jerry Pournelle on Microsoft and Linux [1]
The page will move in a few days, so if the above link doesn't work, try this one. [2]
Wow. I really didn't expect Jerry Pournelle [3] to come out and say this, seeing how he tends to get personal tech support from CEOs [4] and is an active Microsoft supporter. The times, they are a'changing.
[1] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/currentview.html#Friday
[2] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view141.html#Friday
[3] http://www.jerrypournelle.com/