Hi all,

I'm looking for an OS that can do the following for PC hardware or Mac
hardware. If anyone knows any, let me know.

Criteria: (in order of importance)

1. Boot and fully functional (including network access) in less than 10
seconds from power up. This should be able to edit PIC source code in server
in less than 10.5 seconds.

2. STABLE when doing "normal" things such as text editing, compiling code,
web browsing, spreadsheet, etc. It must have pre-emptive multitasking and
memory protection and other niceties of modern OS.

3. Speak TCP/IP and NetNEUI and support NFS. Have installable options for
IPX, Netware, Appletalk via freeware / commercialware / shareware.

4. Support for PIC, Atmel AVR, TI DSP, ARM, Matlab, Xilinx backend tools,
FPGA/CPLD synthesis suppport (Xilinx or Synplicity), Schematic/PCB layout
(Protel or Eagle preferred), office suite that includes word processor,
spreadsheet, database, drawing program.

Win2000 works well for everything except #1 and #2. I always wonder why it
takes many minutes to boot an OS and why it is so unstable when web
browsing. I mean, I have a modern processor that runs at giga speeds and HD
that transfers at over 10 MBytes/sec (sustained). Even 10 seconds of boot
time means the CPU has over 10 billion cycles and HD has time for over 100
MBytes.



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