Operating System

Hello, /prog/. If you had the perfect operating system for writing games in, what features would it have, and what features would it lack? What qualities does the perfect operating system have, and what qualities make you want to stab the people who programmed the OS?

>>6
everything is a file
Stop it already!  I'm sick of that shit.  Computers need to get away from "everything is a stream of bytes" to higher level ways of moving complex data around as well-known types (not necessarily OO).  Erlang's messaging has a reasonably good start in this direction.