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Q OS is a versatile operating system designed with the new features of 64 bit "long mode" CPU's in mind that focuses on making everything as simple as possible for the end user. In designing it and, now, coding it, I have taken every aspect of what we consider to be a "Good OS" and removed everything that people find distracting and, in the end, simply useless. By studying inexperienced people using operating systems such as Linux Distributions and the popular Windows and OS X systems through sources such as the OSFirstTimer channel on YouTube, I have decided on three key features that I will implement into Q OS as some of the key differences from current operating systems. Q OS is built from scratch using the Assembly language for the bootloader and parts of the kernel as well as C++ for the most part of the code. The main unique features I will be implementing into Q OS are as follows: == Tiny Files == When we program in the 21st Century, we have so much more processing power and resources available than in the early days of computing that we often waste large portions of storage and CPU power just by writing inefficient and messy code. As computers continue to get more powerful, so will the level of inefficiency in a typical program such as a word processor where the programmers will save time while developing the software by writing - as I mentioned before - inefficient code that has no benifit whatsoever to the end user. If we, as programmers, continue to let our code become more inefficient just because we are able to with such powerful computers that are available to nearly everybody in the world now, computers will have to cost more than they are actually worth because of the excessive computational power and storage space they will need to cope with such ineficient programming. An example of this incredible waste of storage space can be seen in how an entire program used to fit within a 64KB space on a disk, but now you can't even write a letter in that amount of space using a word processer such as Microsoft Word or Apple's 'Pages'. Obviously, applications have became more advanced, but so have the languages we have available to use to create them with. Theoretically this should allow us to create more advanced programs in only a little more space, but our bad habits as programmers have prevented this from happening. In Q OS, I aim to solve this problem in two main ways. The first of which is by giving any computer with a freshly installed copy of Q OS (when it is complete) built in programs that suit most people's needs in computing such as a word processor, web browser, presentation and chart creation programs and other typical preinstalled software, but the entire package of built-in apps will all fit within less than a 1GB space. This is not even a very hard goal to acomplish when the right routines and programming habbits are adopted in order to create tiny code files. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Q-Operating-System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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