“Back in my day” you had to write a whole kernel yourself to have your own operating system!
Having had a look at a few modern “operating systems” including checking out the manual of Origin Quantum’s new OS for quantum computing, it looks like the accepted norm is now to just develop an operating system as a high level app running on Linux.
Origin Quantum’s new OS (Origin Pilot, these terms presumably trademarks of Origin Quantum) appears to run as a web app on top of Linux, serving requests to run algorithms on quantum hardware over plain HTTP. I assume this will be somewhat the norm on quantum platforms.
I certainly won’t be discontinuing my own kernel work any time soon but I probably will be making some components portable so my systems can easily integrate with these kinds of solutions. As for quantum computing I do hope to implement a kernel-level API but I will of course wait until there’s a bit more research and public feedback about current/next generation quantum systems so that typical use cases can be planned for.
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