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Subject: Standard operating system interface
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Date: Sun, 18-Dec-83 20:20:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 18 20:20:00 1983
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From:  Kirk Kelley  <KIRK.TYM@OFFICE-2>

We are working on a first hack at identifying the major classes, sub-classes, 
and message patterns (the selectors and arguments of each class), in a standard 
object-oriented operating system kernel interface.  It is hoped the OSI will 
also invisibly handle operations on remote objects.  The OSI is intended for 
software that needs to be maintained across more than one operating system.  We 
are doing this for AUGMENT, the windowing, integrated hypertext system spawned 
by the original mouse.

I hear there are efforts to define windowing UNIX systems, but I dont know who 
is involved nor what efforts for other operating systems may exist.  What do you
think of VisiMachine calls as a standard?  Smalltalk :-) ?  MS-DOS Windows?  Do 
you know of any other object-oriented operating systems?

 -- kirk