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This is a very unformed idea that I’m trying to crystallise into a better shape, or any shape at all. It’s been haunting me for decades, though. Probably since the era of OS/2 2.0, and my disappointment when I first saw…

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This is a very unformed idea that I’m trying to crystallise into a better shape, or any shape at all. It’s been haunting me for decades, though. Probably since the era of OS/2 2.0, and my disappointment when I first saw its “Workplace Shell” and found that it wasn’t like a shell at all. That is, you could use graphical objects, even send messages to them… but you couldn’t make your own, at least not interactively. What I’ve wanted since the 1980s is a GUI where the components are “text-like”, ...

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