Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email (templeos.org) 310 points by TerryADavis 77 days ago | 87 comments greenyoda 77 days ago "A troll might say, "It can crash!" We used DOS for years and loved it. Computers even had a reset switch! ... Think of the speed and simplicity of ring-0-only and identity-mapping. It can change tasks in half a microsecond because it doesn't mess with page tables or privilege levels. Inter-process communication is effortless because every task can access every other task's memory." I'm not a troll, but being old enough to have programmed on operating systems where a bad pointer reference could force you to reboot the machine (DOS, early versions of Windows, early versions of MacOS), I don't yearn for those days to come back. DOS was designed...