... it'll be a closed ecosystem: Not only an os that cannot run any existing software, additionally it will be a mess to communicate even the simplest things like web pages. Essentially everything in the World Wide Web are strings of 0s and 1s. Last time I checked, files looked the same. It's that simple, actually. And everyone with a bit of networking experience knows the big-endian / little-endian problems. Or the different line endings for text files. The best development in the last years was the spezification of html and xml. Which are files. Without them the whole WWW would be pointless. And what about sockets ?
Just imagine what will happen if, for example, microsoft would develop an own object-oriented os. And they want to communicate. Conversion hell all over again.
And how would someone represent a media stream as object ?
So the only things I can find about Phantom are tons of questions and marketing mambo-jambo on the Homepage. If it were 1999 I would consider buying some stock. But as it is 2008 I will just laugh out loud.
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... it'll be a closed ecosystem: Not only an os that cannot run any existing software, additionally it will be a mess to communicate even the simplest things like web pages. Essentially everything in the World Wide Web are strings of 0s and 1s. Last time I checked, files looked the same. It's that simple, actually. And everyone with a bit of networking experience knows the big-endian / little-endian problems. Or the different line endings for text files. The best development in the last years was the spezification of html and xml. Which are files. Without them the whole WWW would be pointless. And what about sockets ? Just imagine what will happen if, for example, microsoft would develop an own object-oriented os. And they want to communicate. Conversion hell all over again. And how would someone represent a media stream as object ? So the only things I can find about Phantom are tons of questions and marketing mambo-jambo on the Homepage. If it were 1999 I would consider buying some stock. But as it is 2008 I will just laugh out loud.