can you have 4 operating systems on one buss?

Posted by Phil Henshaw-2 on Mar 27, 2008; 12:11pm
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So a bus, in functional terms, is a 'resource' that never runs into limits
of the kind where users are forced to learn about each other's complex needs
in order to figure our how to get the last little drop of capacity out?
That is, leaving aside the transformational 'synergy' of having everyone in
line fall in love and forget about their shopping... among the other kinds
of choices I had in mind.  :-)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
> Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:01 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Cc: 'Diegert, Carl F'
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] can you have 4 operating systems on one buss?
>
> Phil Henshaw wrote:
> > The question is about when there are lots of uncontested resources at
> first
> > vs. when things have to switch to negotiating the use of contested
> > resources.   In the latter case users can eek out a fraction more by
> > learning to coordinate their independent complex systems, or just do
> time
> > sharing, or do some improbable transformative synergy to move the
> problem to
> > another scale.   In the former case unlimited resources and no
> negotiation
> > means life is simple.
> Think of each operating system as a line at the grocery store.   Even
> if
> one of the checkers is slow or a customer can't find her wallet in her
> purse, or there is someone buying booze that needs an approval from a
> manager, there can be another queue without that problem.   That
> doesn't
> necessarily help any given individual who's already committed to a
> line,
> but in aggregate it does help everyone to have more lines.  There's
> also
> the possibility of super-linear speedups (or synergies).  For example,
> cash-only lines.
>
> Marcus
>
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