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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > At least it would be easier now than in the old days, since the    
   > hardware has improved, and there is also a lot of open-source code    
   > that could at least help get started.   
   >   
      
   Starting from FreePM, which made the design choices that I'm interested    
   in, was the idea.   
      
   > Unfortunately a lot of PM is poorly documented, so you'd first have to    
   > determine what has to be implemented.   
   >   
      
   As someone who has written a few PM programs, I disagree again.  (-:  I    
   found a couple of things over the years that were not apparent from the    
   documentation.  One was a quirk of the fact that in OS/2 version 2 the    
   32-bit PM was actually thunked to 16-bit PM under the covers.  But    
   otherwise I've found PM to be well documented.   
      
   > It might be a bit much for one person, but maybe it could be broken up    
   > into manageable chunks and done piecemeal by a small team rather than    
   > trying to do everything at once.   
   >   
      
   Ironically, someone on one of these let's-write-our-own projects (I    
   forget which.  It was a wiki somewhere.) once put forward that very    
   idea, simply with a larger granularity and a wider overall scope.  One    
   person/group develops Presentation Manager.  One provides a command-line    
   interpreter and ancillary command line utilities.  One provides a    
   Workplace Shell.  One provides an installer.  One provides a kernel. ...   
      
   That person pointed out that I'd done the second task, and had even made    
   the kernel implementor's task easier by making my programs purely    
   32-bit.  (-:   
      
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