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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the 9th October 2001</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan Kay wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>>However, I'm not an exclusivist. I think people should be able to run
<BR>> anything they need side by side and interoperably on their computers
<BR>> regardless of where they came from. That was one of the main points
<BR>> behind my particular conception of OOP (and how it would <BR>>
isomorphically relate to the ARPAnet) back in the 60s.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know if OOP being isomorphic to the
ARPANET would mean that an object would be like a node in a network ?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If so would that mean ideally, objects should
follow the distributed network model devised by Paul Baran and have redundancy
in their interconnections ? And, ideally, should messages be broken down into
message blocks all travelling along different paths to their destination
?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As ARPANET evolved into the Internet by means of an
additional protocol layer, does that mean ideally that OOP should have an
additional protocol layer isomorphic to TCP/IP so that objects from different
languages can work together ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If not, why not ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>