A full operating system in c#

Question

I saw this thread here. I was wondering if this was legit (sounds like it) and what are the drawbacks of doing this. What does it entail to run it stand alone in some archit

Answer 1

Microsoft's Singularity project is a operating system architecture framework which will allow people to write customizable operating system and probably Microsoft's new operating system will be based on singularity.

.NET is very powerful framework, it evolved and it probably contains everything from metadata attributes to linq and which certainly makes us free from bad pointer errors.

Just like Windows Phone and iPhone, people will be able to write customizable operating system for devices.

Today most of firewall, routers (the hardware ones) contain customized linux, that can be replaced with Singularity kernal and your own business process.

Singularity kernel is small it looks like perfect alternative of embedded windows/linux.

I dont think there is any drawback, except that it is totally new system and it will take time for hardware vendors to supply devices comptabile with this, but it will happen in future.