The AFR report is also a little hyped, probably with help from Novasoft
- ... the "SuperNet", a new network with room for 400 trillion
addressable users and devices based on NSBIOS ...
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http://www.afr.com.au/content/980514/inform/inform5.html for the full
article.
Novasoft dares Microsoft with dazzling speed
By Grant Butler
New Australian software house Novasoft Technology has issued a challenge
to Microsoft and the rest of the global computing establishment,
releasing a new operating system designed for the internet.
The operating system is called NSBIOS (see www.nsbios.com) and was
written over three years by Mr Ashod Apakian, a self-taught 22-year-old
computer programmer.
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The key benefit of the new operating system was speed.
NSBIOS is written in the low-level Assembler programming language and is
only 80 kilobytes in size. The current version of NSBIOS has been
written for 32-bit Intel processors, such as the Pentium family.
However, Mr Apakian said it could be modified and run on other hardware
platforms.
According to Mr Apakian, NSBIOS is 250 times faster than Java and comes
with development tools making it suitable for professionals who want to
create real-time, interactive applications such as SFINX.
... snip ...
"Everyone's trying to be backwards-compatible," said Mr Apakian. "But
that's the gamble we took. We thought 'stuff it', we won't be compatible
but we'll get speeds no-one has ever dreamt of."
... snip ...
Second, Novasoft wants to launch what it calls the "SuperNet", a new
network with room for 400 trillion addressable users and devices based
on NSBIOS -- a new internet based on '90s technology rather than
protocols developed in the 1960s.
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