Position & proposal

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> From: William A. Barnett-Lewis <wlewis@mailbag.com>
> To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> Cc: lispos@math.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: Position & proposal
> Date: Wednesday, 04 June, 1997 12:32
>
> Perhaps it's simply philosophical, but I believe that any computer
> resource is inherently cheaper than 1 second of a user/programmer's
> time.
> Hence 1 user = 1+ cpu and all resources. Once you begin timesharing, you
> create artifical scarcity (artificial in the sense that it's
> unnecessary)
> 
> William

Agreed, but the multi-user model is good for desigining a processor that
can be used as a server or have multiple untrusted processes running on it.
			~jrm