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Abstract |
System software provides certain resources and a basic organizational form for the computational experience of users. In this article we argue that both the extent of basic resources and their organization in current systems are not optimal. We advance a new model of system resources, the computational medium model, that we believe can significantly improve the state of affairs. We make our case by describing systematic limits of current software and by motivating and explaining the new model. We present an existence proof by briefly Boxer, a system designed according to the computational medium model. Finally, we discuss many initiatives at improving system software in recent years and argue that the difficulties these address are alleviated, if not eliminated, by the new model. |
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