Philosophy

Computation can occur through sophisticated manipulation of power gradients (beit voltage, gravity, springs, cranks on difference engines). As long as energy is available, computation can be performed -- it's just a matter of how you organize that energy.

...General-purpose computation requires another layer, the Universal Turing Machine. But rather than try a top-down approach as every other OS, we'll create the minimal machine and let the users and admins construct the OS with modular objects that are also apps.