>>12Why? By necessity, such an OS would have to be paired with another, more featured OS in order to learn effectively (At the least, the OS used to edit and compile the instructional code). At that point, a student becomes unrestricted though virtualization, and there's no need for specific hardware just to run the instructional OS. The only point in using a specific device for learning would be to learn how to learn how to program/use that specific device.
I believe the ``low cost educational computer'' refers to the same meaning as that intended by the OLPC project - the computer itself is low-cost, and is sufficient for uses supplementing education, like browsing the internet and reading documents.