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A metaphysics of the command-line:

• Every command is a function, requiring some input and returning some (transformed) output.
• Functions can inherit or be composed of other functions, until you get to some base function.
• Data is standardized for all functions (atomic vs. list of data, standard delimiters for separating levels of data -- fields, records, tables, etc.)
• commnications pathways (like pipes) to connect these together.

Together, this could constitute a perfect system, unsurpassable, except in minor ways (like syntactical tokens chosen to implement these rules).

Similar in hardware, you have three different specializatins:

• the motherboard or SystemArchiteture,
• the CPU, and
• the SoftwareArchitecture.

But the OperatingSystem is decomposible into a similar set of three:

• The application,
• the data,
• the syntax that links these items together.

As above. (So below.)