Appears very much in the spirit of Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface [2000]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin
As u/chrisweekly alludes to elsethread, Obsidian is a bit like WonderOS.
Could WonderOS be implemented as a "Obsidian as an operating system shell"? That'd be a "leaky abstraction", of course. But there are many precedents.
Sorry, my pre-senile brain isn't quickly recalling the variety of experiments made to run on top of early Windows. Just a list of possibles:
- Norton Commander was ported to Windows, right?
- Assymetrix (Paul Allen's startup focused on actor based programming) did something
- Wasn't there a desktop based on GEM?
Aha. Here's a few more contenders:
List of alternative shells for Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...
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Anyway... WonderOS is terrific. So much work. It's definitely worthy of implementing a prototype.
Please share any future updates. Thanks.
Appears very much in the spirit of Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface [2000]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin
As u/chrisweekly alludes to elsethread, Obsidian is a bit like WonderOS.
Could WonderOS be implemented as a "Obsidian as an operating system shell"? That'd be a "leaky abstraction", of course. But there are many precedents.
Sorry, my pre-senile brain isn't quickly recalling the variety of experiments made to run on top of early Windows. Just a list of possibles:
- Norton Commander was ported to Windows, right?
- Assymetrix (Paul Allen's startup focused on actor based programming) did something
- Wasn't there a desktop based on GEM?
Aha. Here's a few more contenders:
List of alternative shells for Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...
--
Anyway... WonderOS is terrific. So much work. It's definitely worthy of implementing a prototype.
Please share any future updates. Thanks.