It's best not to judge a book by its cover. Museum OS is a concept operating system that runs on a 128-bit kernel, because it might be useful one day*. It will feature other state of the art technologies that are to be determined. It is also a timeless operating system, because it operates on general relativity. Therefore, it does not use network time, but rather, gravitational time dilation, or rather, the difference of elapsed time between two events.
*For example, the memory limit for address space in a 64-bit system is 16 million Terabytes (TB). The first person to find a need for 16 million TB and 1 byte will be the first person to get job offers and government grants to build a 128 bit memory address. Consider qubits, which can in quantum computing process far more data than a conventional computer. Would such a system ever need to utilize a traditional Von-Neumann architecture (or any other architecture that accesses a memory system, even if it is not the most efficient way of solving a problem- e.g. it might be the only way), or would the memory system not require 2^64+ TB?
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