@OlafS25

You're right that software decides, but you're also right that no company will write new games and apps for a few hundred users. That means we're going to be largely dependent on hobby projects and ports.

For ports, features like memory protection would make things *massively* simpler, even if it's not enabled by default for existing applications. It would allow far better emulation of Linux/Unix API's, for example - sufficient MP support would even make it possible to write a compatibility API to let PPC Linux apps run unmodified - for Windows there's for example CoLinux that allows you to run Linux; having those kind of capabilities would be good temporary measures to plug "holes" in application availability.

But MP is also pretty much a must to be taken seriously. Having your OS crash because of badly behaving applications just isn't acceptable any more. My Linux boxes at work have uptimes measured in *years* even though we do development work on them. That is what is expected of a modern OS.

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