[FRIAM] can you have 4 operating systems on one buss?

[Phil Henshaw]

The question is about when there are lots of uncontested resources at first
vs. when things have to switch to negotiating the use of contested
resources.   In the latter case users can eek out a fraction more by
learning to coordinate their independent complex systems, or just do time
sharing, or do some improbable transformative synergy to move the problem to
another scale.   In the former case unlimited resources and no negotiation
means life is simple.

Is it possible that observing a blow-up of complexity might signal that
independent parts of a system might be running into each other after
exhausting the free resources available to both?   It seems that being
forced to negotiate with each other over contested ones might do that.   Is
there a computation analog?




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