From universe to process space
Traditional image-centered systems make residency a precondition for recognition: objects must be loaded and live in the image to participate. System-128 decouples identity, existence, and residency.
An object reference may resolve to an active local object, a dormant representation in an object store, a service on another host, or a proxy governed by policy. Loading, paging, migration, caching, and transport remain inspectable mechanisms.
Transparency with limits
Message sending should remain the conceptual model, but the system must not conceal the facts that matter: latency, failure, authority, consistency, and resource cost. Location transparency is useful only when accompanied by explicit policies and observable consequences.
What a workspace contains
A workspace is a live configuration of references, active objects, tools, views, policies, and history. It can be resumed, compared, shared, or realized elsewhere without pretending to contain the entire system.