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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