A Computer is a "Universal Atom of Meaning"

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A Computer is a "Universal Atom of Meaning"

Gabo H Beaumont

29 March 2026, 17:53
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    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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