Shrinking the OS to its important features is a consequence of shrinking the entire software suite -- applications included -- since the "importance" of a feature is largely a measure of the degree to which it renders other features redundant. Moreover, I've noticed that the user interface tends to become more consistent when the underlying implementation is driven to be more consistent relative to the essential functions. Ultimately, of course, this gets into the boundary between human and machine learning.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:40 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > Or shrink the operating system by removing the less important features. > The basic function of the operating system is to allow you to load, run, > and stop programs. > > The UNIVAC 1219 operating system was 32 18-bit words hard wired into core > memory. It read a paper tape into a fixed block of memory and executed it. > Typically this would be a loader routine for the rest of the tape. I'm not > aware of anything smaller than that. > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 10:35 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The paper Characterizing the Software Development Process: A New >> Approach Based on Kolmogorov Complexity >> <https://www.academia.edu/10454331/Characterizing_the_Software_Development_Process_A_New_Approach_Based_on_Kolmogorov_Complexity> >> falls >> short of the suggestion I made to a college friend of mine who took over >> the chief architect position from Gates: >> >> Take a little bit of the mountain of monopoly money sitting around -- say >> only a billion or two -- and turn it into a prize for the internal team >> that can produce the smallest bootable image that expands into an >> implementation of the complete software suite: OS, Office, etc. that >> passes the QA testing. >> >> >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T876326baabbfe97e-Meb378ee5585ae24afcef1391> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T876326baabbfe97e-Ma9042c291c6ac7ff3a4514e0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
