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Are you proposing something similar to the Apple Newton Soup? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple)

• arsome 3y ago
  Or perhaps WinFS? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
• drpixie 3y ago
  I'm thinking something where the system maintains "objects" of arbitrary types, presumably they could include multiple other objects. You just access objects and the system makes them available - the object could be a document, a game, a purchase order, etc. The system would also handle moving them around - what we know as "networking". (A little like Smalltalk.) In that case, I see no need for lower level data. No need to read text into memory, no need to serialise anything, no need to open/read/write/close. So all the work we do to handle low level stuff becomes obsolete :) (Or at least provided once by OS programmers.)
  • abecedarius 3y ago
    Reminds me of KeyKOS and presumably other capability-oriented OSes (none of which I've ever gotten familiar with, I'm afraid).
    • drpixie 3y ago
      Not familiar with that one. Thanks for the pointer.