3rd Party OS Development?

im sure theres an obvious answer to this question, but iwas just wondering...

as far as i can see - the MPC operates in a similar way to a pc, in that it requires an operating system to run

of course, as far as computers go, windows and OSX domiante, but there are all kinds of third party operating systems available - for example Linux

if you look at the XBOX, so many companies develop chips which allow custom interfaces (not entire sure about entire OSs tho) to be used on microsofts systems

now, alot of these third party developments have many advantages over the standard OSs that were pushed to use. majority are open source so bugs and problems are fixed more quickly. as these systems are developed by users, they know what we want, and more powerful tools are incorporated within them. with enough development, they usually work better...

now

if we look at, for example, the MPC 1000 - timestretch is missing

isnt it feasable that in a future OS timestretch could be included (not that i really need it)

we all sit around waiting for akai to bring out new OSs with bugs cleaned out and new features

but

couldnt someone with enough programming knowledge make their own

the console and pc market is filled with modders and programmers

do we have none?

is it not possible?

or are there simply no MPC users who can?

In theory one could write a new os for an mpc. The problem is that you need to now all the internals of the machine at its lowest level. You would need data sheets of the machine like which irq(s) to check for detecting the pads, where to write data to display on the screen, what address to read to collect sample data etc... (unless these kind of functions are stored in a separate bios). Since the MPC family is so big I'm sure there might be peeps out there who, given the needed info, might be able to do this, but this seems like a too big job for one person alone unless (s)he gives up those trivial things in life like family, friends, personal hygiene ...

here's a interesting thread on the subject:

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=15341