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The non operating system operating system

Jun 26, 2010, 08:07 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Keith Eckstein for this link. ]

"I touched briefly upon OS independence when I wrote a little bit about the Q10 minimalistic word processor a few weeks ago and PyRoom, another minimalistic word processor, last week.

"Or, if I didn't, then I certainly should have done.

"The point that I'm trying to make is that as both of those applications save their data as straight unmodified text files; those file are obviously readable on pretty much any system out there, from computers to word processors, tablet devices to mobile phones – hell, I think that even my Microwave displays text files.

"Perhaps I exaggerate slightly?"

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