10-23-95. NYPaper: "An operating system to keep the wide spaces open while providing security. Providing tools to build hangouts in cyberspace, protected by encryption." Denise Caruso's column. Electric Communities began work began in 1993 on the Cyberspace Operating System, or COS, designed to manage the resources of shared computing -- like security and bandwidth -- just as operating systems like the Macintosh OS or Windows 95 manage resources inside a desktop PC. The team is inventing some technology, including a programming language (compatible with Sun Microsystems' new Java language for Internet applications) and a design concept for software building blocks which it is in the process of patenting. In addition, staff cryptographers are weaving encryption throughout the system to make it absolutely secure and private. COS_sec (6 kb)