Re:Renraku OS: The Way Up
by daeken on Friday August 07, 2009 @05:08AM
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Yea, it's a mix of several other projects. I've been accumulating ideas from all kinds of sources for years, and I've ended up with the list you see in the Future OS post (among others). One thing I'd like to note is that the interaction between objects, even just plain method calls, can really be seen as a communication channel and made network transparent very easily. I'd really like to get basic networking and network transparency into Renraku by year's end, but we'll see.
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As long as I can, somehow, redirect the communication to other programs, I'm happy. I'll give you an example: if I have a text editor that I really really like, lets say notepad.exe for arguments sake, then I should be able to use this for all my text input. It should go further than this though: if I'm talking to you over pidgin, not only should I (somehow) be able to use notepad.exe, but I should also be able to redirect your responses to, for example, another pidgin conversations input, or a text-to-speech device or anywhere really.
The idea is that all input and output can be redirected, filtered, scripted etc. I posted a blog post about some of these ideas once, but I'm not gonna post a link :-D been meaning to clean it up for ages, so maybe after I finally get to doing so, I'll share, heh.