Dynabook hw cost
subbukk
subbukk at gmail.com
Tue May 29 17:48:39 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 8:58 pm, Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi Subbu --
>
> See what you think of the "preposterous proposal" (as one reviewer termed
> it).
>
> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/NSF_prop_RN-2006-002.pdf
Some of the ideas presented (e.g. Island, pseudo-time) would have been
considered 'bold' or 'risky' in the nineties, but not so today. Kairos works
so well in real world (e.g. children, artists, farmers, etc), so there is no
reason for computing should stick to chronos time.
Building a 20KLOC monolith would definitely be a challenge. Unix kernel was
only around 6K lines of C when it started. TinyCC (circa 2004), a bootloader
that compiles Linux kernel on the fly and runs it, is about 7500 lines of C.
The issue here is not one of space or speed constraints but one of verifying
correctness of such a monolith within engineering tolerances.
Regards .. Subbu
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