6/6/2026 at 6:01:02 AM
by signa11
6/6/2026 at 7:26:58 AM
Kay’s answer to the browser/document subject is pretty solid.This is a stupid conversation though, as if hoping everything is either just plain text with hyperlinks or mandating everything into PDF. Nobody wants that except a couple of lonely nerds in the corner who hate JavaScript.
by austin-cheney
6/6/2026 at 11:40:17 AM
> Nobody wants that except a couple of lonely nerds in the corner who hate JavaScript.Hey, anyone else want to join us in this corner?
by lproven
6/6/2026 at 10:59:10 AM
In 1997, the Justice Department decided that Operating Systems and Web Browsers must remain separate. Since then, the Web Browser has been becoming an Operating System.by typedef_struct
6/6/2026 at 12:20:55 PM
IMHO, for effective computing in the Internet era, we should not be depending on classical OS or application centric but data-centric. Otherwise it will be always a mismatched of abstraction between OS and application. In this case a web OS inside a classical OS, remember webOS anyone [1]?This should a new data-centric OS similar to TabulaROSA in concept where data is managed and governed by mathematical relationship in this case associative array based D4M [2],[3].
This concept can be implemented initially on Linux, since now Linux support generic non-conventional kernel bypass for memory, storage and compute with io_uring and eBPF, for examples [4].
[1] webOS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
[2] TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines:
https://dspace.mit.edu/entities/publication/69c8906b-440f-49...
[3] D4M:
[4] BPF comes to io_uring at last:
by teleforce
6/6/2026 at 8:17:15 AM
Imagine how rich Apple could have become if they had used Alan Kay's brilliance to build hyper engaging products and services instead of letting him toil away uselessly trying to make the bicycle of the mind. What a waste.by camgunz
6/6/2026 at 1:52:27 PM
Snark aside, Apple did built Alan Kay's vision. Just 50 years too late, and in a half-arsed way.by coldtea