Gavin writes:
>
> So, why not simply design your awesome new environment to run as an
> ordinary application inside another operating system?  You can design
> your world to look however you like, and you simply have to design some
> abstraction layer to let you implement your environment on top of the
> native OS.  If you want to run on top of another operating system, you
> just port the abstraction layer.

Sounds good to me.

>
> Hmmm.  I think we just invented Java.
>

Did we?  Does Java have persistent, shareable, site-transparent objects?  Does
Java replace files and databases with such objects?

> G. (still hoping to implement TAOS some day)

What is TAOS?

Ignorant in Albany.

Jim Kramer /Lund Performance Solutions
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