Why a New OS ?
III. No computer is an island, entire in itself
- Down to actual OSes
- Humanly characteristics of computers
persistence, resilience, mobility, etc....
response to human
- features: high-level abstraction
Real-time, code & data persistence, distribution, higher order
- misfeatures: low-level abstraction
batch processing, sessions & files, networking, first order
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