On 21/02/2021 18:44, tim Rowledge wrote:
> My thought these days is to skip the attempts to have a single memory 
> space shared between threads/cores/whatever and have many separate 
> systems running and communicating. Yes, it may be 'less performant' to 
> pass bits down whatever variety of damp string required, but so what. 
> Computers are better than 10 million times faster today than they were 
> when we did BrouHaHa on RISC OS and the Active Book. Let's have a 512 
> core AARCH64 machine running 1500 images. In your pocket (admittedly 
> right now a fairly large and well cooled pocket). 

I would so love to have a machine like that. Maybe some kind of 
LittleSmalltalk or SmallWorld derivative could be used for tiny non-GUI 
specialised images.