# Fwd: Ruby's role in future operating systems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-rubys-role-in-future-operating-systems/63056>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 11, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-rubys-role-in-future-operating-systems/63056 "2006-06-11T10:26:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-rubys-role-in-future-operating-systems/63056/1 "2006-06-11T10:26:06Z")

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DEBAUN, STEVE [Seminis/2400] wrote:

> In an inspired moment the other night, I thought it would be soooo  
> cooool to  
> have a command shell with ruby syntax. The I started getting even  
> crazier,  
> and thought, what about a ruby interpreter as an o/s kernel…
> 
> It may have only sounded cool because I was drunk, though.

I seem to remember seeing that someone was doing an MSH-a-like in  
Ruby. Can’t find it now…