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For the last couple of years WonderOS has explored what a return to first principles OS design might look like today and there are definitely parallels to Xanad

For the last couple of years WonderOS has explored what a return to first principles OS design might look like today and there are definitely parallels to Xanadu with explicit callouts to Hypercard, Vannevar Bush and Engelbert if you explore the Lab Notes from the developer which are very thoughtful. ".... an itemized user environment. The item is an alternative boundary for our digital things which may let us interact with our devices more fluidly, and reflect our thinking more accurately, across our entire personal computing domain." https://wonderos.org/ https://wonderos.org/

specialist 3y ago
Really great, thanks for share. Appears very much in the spirit of Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface [2000] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-Interactive/dp/0201379376 https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin As u/chrisweekly alludes to elsethread, Obsidian is a bit like WonderOS. Could WonderOS be implemented as a "Obsidian as an operating system shell"? That'd be a "leaky abstraction", of course. But there are many precedents. Sorry, my pre-senile brain isn't quickly recalling the variety of experiments made to run on top of early Windows. Just a list of possibles: - Norton Commander was ported to Windows, right? - Assymetrix (Paul Allen's startup focused on actor based programming) did something - Wasn't there a desktop based on GEM? Aha. Here's a few more contenders: List of alternative shells for Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for... -- Anyway... WonderOS is terrific. So much work. It's definitely worthy of implementing a prototype. Please share any future updates. Thanks.

specialist 3y ago

Really great, thanks for share. Appears very much in the spirit of Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface [2000] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-Interactive/dp/0201379376 https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin As u/chrisweekly alludes to elsethread, Obsidian is a bit like WonderOS. Could WonderOS be implemented as a "Obsidian as an operating system shell"? That'd be a "leaky abstraction", of course. But there are many precedents. Sorry, my pre-senile brain isn't quickly recalling the variety of experiments made to run on top of early Windows. Just a list of possibles: - Norton Commander was ported to Windows, right? - Assymetrix (Paul Allen's startup focused on actor based programming) did something - Wasn't there a desktop based on GEM? Aha. Here's a few more contenders: List of alternative shells for Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for... -- Anyway... WonderOS is terrific. So much work. It's definitely worthy of implementing a prototype. Please share any future updates. Thanks.