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Todd Rundgren Writes a Mac OS!

MacWeek's Sept 27 issue reports that Todd Rudgren has written an 
OS shell that runs over the Mac Resource Manager and Quickdraw, 
for his new unnamed paint program.  Using this OS shell, called 
HyperCode, "you navigate to various pieces of data, and when you 
get to the data that you want, the tools that work on it become 
available," says Todd.

     Quoting from the article:

     "The tools are designed as separate and independent code 
resources that can be mixed and matched.  Only the environment 
shell and whatever tools are in immediate use are held in memory, 
in order to reduce overhead requirements.

     "More importantly, Rundgren said, HyperCode allows 
individual tools to replace obsolete ones [I hate that syntactical 
construct!] without having to get an application.  'Users don't 
have to go out and buy a $500 program to get some things they do 
want and some things they don't know if they want and maybe some 
things they definitely don't want,' says Rundgren, who envisions 
that most tools will be small enough to distribute on CompuServe.

     "'There's no low-end, high-end dichotomy [between 
applications], and it makes the user' senvironment infinitely 
expansible,' he said."  

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Anyone have any more information on this?  Sounds remarkably like
an Object *nix in concept...

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