Alan Kay Quotes:
Ocupation: Computer Scientist
Life: b. May 17, 1940
Birthday: May 17
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
topic: Real, Ideas, Apples, Operating Systems, Personal Computers, Cache, Mainframe
