MIT Technology Review :: Kill the Operating System!
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> It wouldn’t take much to enable today’s computers to
> store every version of every document they have ever
> been used to modify: most people perform fewer than
> a million keystrokes and mouse clicks each day; a paltry
> four gigabytes could hold a decade’s worth of typing
> and revisions if we stored those keystrokes directly,
> rather than using the inefficient Microsoft Word
> document format. Alas, the convenient abstractions of
> directories and files make it difficult for designers to
> create something different.

I've heard the point made before, but Garfinkel's column is the first time it's been explained to my full appreciation. Excellent metonymical per-unit illustration. I guess the Internet provides the obvious paradigm.

See also this interesting piece on retro-coders.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 12:56 PM

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