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From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:03:03 +1300 (NZDT)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?
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I once thought of developing a computer where everything from the core functions to the peripherals 
was a network node. In effect replacing the bus. I found references to a Cambridge U (UK) computer 
system that purported to do just that but couldn't find any more info on it.

Your idea sounds like an extension of Oberon, from what I can remember of reading Wirth's book on the 
Oberon OS in the nineties.

You should give it a go.

Wesley Parish

Quoting Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co>:
> 
> I once thought of trying to develop an OS where not only was everything
> a 
> file, but programs were in effect functions that could be chained 
> together.
> 
> Then decided it was too radical.
> 
> -uso.
> 
>  



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