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You need to clean slate the entire world because everything is interconnected. If , for example, you want files to be more than streams of bytes then you basic
by wvenable 3y ago
You need to clean slate the entire world because everything is interconnected. If , for example, you want files to be more than streams of bytes then you basically have to re-invent the Internet as well.
The older I get, the more I realize that we don't need a clean slate OS. If you pick any modern OS right now, the most annoying parts are never the parts that were from 30 years ago; it's almost always the newest thing.
- throwaway290 3y agoThe opposite is true. You can convert anything to anything at the boundary. The beauty of looser coupling
- wvenable 3y agoYou can't convert anything to anything at the boundary and still have full interoperability. An example is resource forks on classic MacOS -- they never played nice with an Internet that assumes that files are only a flat stream of bytes.
- throwaway290 3y agoI think that sounds like an issue of not converting something properly? The problem with converting is that it can be expensive... that's true.