A Computer is a "Universal Atom of Meaning"
Master and Instances to Activities and Processes
Alan Kay was a Mathematician and Microbiologist. He got inspired how Biologic Cells to make scalable systems:
A Computer is A "Universal Atom of Meaning"! You can't go lower than a computer to make arbitrary things. Going to data structures is meaningless. Going to procedures is meaningless. I don't want to go lower than a computer.
Multi-Processing and Scaling mean messaging!
Concepts I got inspired with
Sketchpad Instances
Simula Processes
Time-shared virtual machine process (B5000)
Networked real machine processes
You can't go lower from a computer if you
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