can you have 4 operating systems on one buss?

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Mar 28, 2008; 4:54am
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Phil Henshaw wrote:
> That's sort of a central control mechanism for dealing with independent
> users that were not smart enough to share the limited resource on their own.
> If the independent users were to learn enough about each other's needs they
> might learn ways to cooperate and make better use of the limited shared
> resource.
It's not that they are not smart enough to figure out what the resource
is and how to share it.   It's that in this case the real failure would
be ongoing haphazard negotiation by users, which is clumsy and poorly
informed and its realization is usually not the primary problem they are
interested in solving.  Better to design an automated load balancing
algorithm and leave that work to a fast and patient computer.   The
identification of general principles of what constitutes fair use (e.g.
equal access to memory and cycles and known turnaround time), is the
social/organizational question, and it's separate from the implementation.

So my question in response to yours, in the context of the subject
line,  was:  "Is there really a resource under contention?"
Or is it just a venue for someone to interleave themselves as a
controller and make themselves more important than they ought to be.  
Lots of people have vested interests in existing inefficiencies, the
management of conflict, and the facilitation of people who would rather
not think.

Marcus