"Ball", the Byzantine Askemos Language Layer, is an intrusion resistant and incorruptible, autonomous distributed operating system. It provides application programmers with continuations, messages, and rights management on top of a peer-to-peer network resisting byzantine failures of network nodes. The API significantly raises the level of abstraction in comparison with other operating systems: there are very few system calls, and these are expressed in XML. An alternative understanding of Askemos is that of an XML object database with stored procedures.
To late It's a pity, that I've seen the article just now. You'll love to see, that Askemos (http://www.askemos.org/) implements some of your design ideas.
Re: The tree structure is one problem > I've taken a brief look, and find the > structure a little daunting (also > unfortunately I don't speak much German > :( ) -- some of conept...
The tree structure is one problem I also ran into the data organization problem in 1993 (when I last time lost files). I found among others the file metaphor and strict tree structure a major ...