[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi , 7-Dec-1999 you wrote:
>
> >Sorry, couldn't resist, but there was at least one more name before
> >LAVA, and it starts with an M...
> >But I am not sure I can divulge it...
>
> LAVA was just one phase in Carl's big plan. IIRC, Carl wanted to end up with a
> new kind of operating system, built with LAVA as the foundation - as he said,
> being able to communicate is a basic need, and only when this is possible can
> the other layers be added.
Yes, Molten LAVA, Hot LAVA etc. ... I liked the name LAVA. Now LAVA! is the name
of some Sound Blaster technology?
> I don't remember which part of the big plan was called Magma, but one of them
> was. I guess you can all see the theme of these names, and I kinda like it -
> seeing the current computer situation as a grey, boring, and unproductive
> thing: A rock. Along comes Carl's plan, which partially melts the rock in
> order to create something new, something much more dynamic. (Oh, do behave,
> this is probably enough dumb philosophy from my side for the next couple of
> months!...)
>
Magma was the name for the OS, which was supposed to come as a "means of
operation", the second phase.
> Of course, REBOL has had other predecessors too, one of them being a
> multimedia language that Carl (and some others?) made at Viscorp. Though, I
> do not know what this one was called.
>
ABL\E. Carl worked at VisCorp with Jim Goodnow (who is at REBOL Tech. of course
:-) on Ed Set-top-box. I think much of REBOL/Media is going to be based upon
ABL\E, or so Carl said IIRC.
> Anyway, it would be really interesting to know if Carl still has those plans
> about a new OS kinda thing, or whether REBOL will be "just" a
> platform-independent programming system.
>
Plans abou new OS? I am not sure anymore. I remember Carl mentioning something
like: "next great OS will not come from the kernel route". Actually, the age of
various info appliances is really knocking the door, so the question is - what's
the OS? We all complained upon Amiga Inc. deciding to build just some
AmigaObjects, but look also into another projects, as Elate
(http://www.tao-group.com ), or KOSH (http://kosh.convergence.com - the idea of
Object Sea by Dave Haynie), all those system will work on the host systems, while
via the link to underlying OS they provide capabilities of OS functionality, just
thru multiple platforms.
Well, it's just easy - only Carl knows the answer to your question :-)
-pekr-
> Kind regards,
> --
> Ole Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> "Ignorance is bliss"
> (Cypher, The Matrix)
