> What will "the system" be? Just a language generator? "The system" I have in my mind is basically what is described in:
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/NSF_prop_RN-2006-002.pdf ------ ... a practical working system that is also its own model; a whole system from the end-users to the metal that could be extremely compact (we think under 20,000 lines of code) yet practical enough to serve both as a highly useful end-user system and a "system to learn about systems". I.e. the system could be compact, comprehensive, clear, high-level, and understandable enough to be an "Exploratorium of itself". ------ It is a working model of a personal computer which is self-supporting, and something that the user can do stuff/interact with. > So, you want to have a more concise and easier to understand > description of an application? Ideally, a description of *all*, or enough to describe the software (and hardware?) of computer. -- Yoshiki To think about the extent of description, physics laws for the entire universe probably doesn't require 20k lines of equations (well, I don't know for sure), and a biological system (a living body) probably requires way more than 20k to describe what is going in it (well, I don't know it for sure either). So, one could have an interesting sense of the complexity of a personal computer. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
