> The web is a lowest common denominator. Yes, it is, but why? HTML/JS has a LCD interface. x86 has a LCD interface. Even filesystems sort of have an LCD (s

> The web is a lowest common denominator. Yes, it is, but why? HTML/JS has a LCD interface. x86 has a LCD interface. Even filesystems sort of have an LCD (some superset of MS-DOS FAT). Shouldn't the OS have one, too? If we standardized filesystems, executables, and syscalls, I don't see how our world would be any worse, and I can think of many in which it would be better.