Back to the original question, and taking bus in a more general way,
ethernet has the properties that Phil is looking for: the resource is
limited, the users allocate and share by each pursuing a local rule, and the
whole thing melts down when it gets overloaded. The solutions proposed to
solve
Well, the problem with the management solution for natural resource sharing is
there's no one in charge, and actually no position from which anyone could be.
So beyond learning creative ways for independent users to share, the only
option to avoid unexpected eruptions of conflict would be to
Roger Critchlow wrote:
The solutions proposed to solve the melt down, such as token ring and
ATM, mostly involve a less anarchic sharing algorithm. Yet the most
successful solution to the melt down has been to increase the size of
the shared resource.
Well, the fix is by in large
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Now that since nearly anyone's taking of more resources is increasingly
robbing and disrupting other users, has sort of become the main source of
conflict on earth..
If someone wants to copy a real big amount of stuff from one node of a
cluster to another (there
