Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Tenet 2: Any Software, Any Hardware

That's right. It follows from tenet 1, that any terminal on the network must be able to run software from any other terminal. In the simplest case, this implies homogeneous hardware and software. More robustly, we could write the OS in a way that allows translation from one platform to another. This appeals to my sense of adventure, and also to the one-world-order that I am attempting. The ideal here is to end up with one OS which renders all others totally obsolete.

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