From:     Bob Armstrong 
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:18:05 -0600
Subject: Re: CoSy futures

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:19:15 -0400, joseph mcelroy wrote:
> Hey Bob,
>
> It would be almost impossible (without a few billion dollars or few
> thousand programmers) to market a new general purpose operating system
> to a mass audience, given the mindshare now controlled by Microsoft (in
> the closed world) and Linux (in the free world).  So a business model
> built upon its advantages over those, with the intent of replacement is
> not going to sell... that being said, there quite probably are niche
> markets, where special purpose operating systems would have advantages
> not shared by LinuxWindow... the goal would be to determine where the
> unique capabilities of Cosy coincide with the needs of a niche (and
> lucrative) market.  Do you have any ideas on that matter?


 I think you will see that I stress the importance of attacking an
 opening niche in the excerpt , overview.htm , I attached .

 The universality of the foundation expands the domain of application
 only over time . I have attached another recent description from a
 letter to a fund manager I met at a lunch over the summer . He has
 been involved in creating some multi-billion dollar market cap
 companies , mainly health services related , and was seeking $300M
 for his new fund . ( By the way , If you look at the source of these
  HTML attachments , you will see the boilerplate formatting is done
  with a bit of embedded K.CoSy code . )

 The problem with describing an initial "niche" for CoSy is that ,
 to use multidimensional imagery , it essentially provides a change
 of basis for one's interaction with their machine . Thus its domain
 of application intrinsically cuts across traditional divisions .
 For instance , it's not possible to separate computation from word
 processing . In all CoSys since the earliest days , I've counted the
 words in any document I'm working on , by essentially executing

   +/ " " = text

 adding up the spaces between the words . And , if I wanted to add
 a word to my vocabulary to encapsulate that , I would execute

   `WordCount : { +/ " " = RA }

 to make the new verb "WordCount" so from then on , I could just write

   WordCount text

 to accomplish the same thing . ( RA stands for Right Argument . )
 It's hard to predict how rapidly additional applications would evolve
 given today's web community support facilities .

 The initial niche I see is very banal everyday tasks : diary/organizer
 and email in particular . But ( picking on your math background ) I see
 it kind of like the Felix Klein's book I never read but love the title :
 "Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint" .
 The initial market is tek oriented executive level individuals .

 I use an email program "PocoMail" ( http://www.pocosystems.com ) because
 the straight-jacket of MS's Outlook quickly drove me nuts . ( Until the
 Web obsoleted CompuServe , I did all my email directly thru CoSy . )
 PocoMail has a scripting language in it . But , it is idiosyncratic
 and only useful for PocoMail . So not worth my time to learn .
 I therefore have found myself compelled to build a bunch of words and
 a mess of sentences in  K.CoSy  to read in my email from PocoMails files
 and apply an evolving sequence of filters to get rid of the torrents of
 spam . PocoMail is simply too clumsy to do the sorts of things I am
 doing . And there is no language in Outlook to do anything at all .


 I thank you for your feedback . There are not that many people I could
 write all this to with the expectation that it may be understood .
 I will be very interested the thoughts Yossi Ben Dak , the individual
 I mentioned in my first post , wants to discuss . He may have some
 solid ideas as to an initial motivating market .


 I hope I'm piquing your interest enough to take a deeper look at what
 CoSy currently is and the possibilities it implies .

Peace thru Freedom ,


Bob A

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