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Croquet Project

2004-11-10 16:26:34.735927+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

After emailing documents across the couch (yes, the house server is now back up), I ran across Croquet Project, a framework for network shared environments which uses 3d hardware for its interface notions, and asks:

WHAT IF...

...we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go? What kinds of decisions would we make that we might have been unable to even consider 20 or 30 years ago, when the current set of operating systems were first created?

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#Comment Re: made: 2004-11-10 20:36:55.527695+00 by: petronius

What we now know or what we now have? There are all sorts of weird things in Windows left over from the days of ruinously expensive RAM and teeny-tiny disk drives. Had cheap memory and 60 Gig drives been available back then, much evil might have been avoided. And MS-BOB might have been strangled in his cradle.