> At least, this was the OLE/OpenDoc argument. Things didn't work out that way but it's worth asking if that was due to implementation deficiencies or because t

> At least, this was the OLE/OpenDoc argument. Things didn't work out that way but it's worth asking if that was due to implementation deficiencies or because the actual vision was bad. I think our machines weren't up to it in the 90s. Simply the amount of memory it uses caused problems, and the tooling was a horror show. Part of the reason I submitted this was imo it's how a virtual reality system should work, yet as you point out everyone now is in a "that's an app" mindset.