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"... In between are three sparse paragraphs. The first paragraph mentions Xanadu and the original iteration of the Mac OS as examples of systems that didn't use files. The second and third paragraphs complain that now every system uses files, that we're locked in to using filesystems, and we can't even conceive of systems without files. ..."

Try reading up on Andrew Pam. I met Andrew for lunch one day around '95 and remember him talking about Xanadu ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu running on a new fangled thing called a "Be Box" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox At one stage you could buy the software with a book in bookshops and I remember looking at it. WWW was more interesting.