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Re: An immutable operating system

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In the case of Clojure, log is log base 32, so it's close enough to O(1) as to make no difference in most circumstances.

But the constant factor is Z, a very large number. A number so large it has a color and name. It pays taxes, has lunch and sees movies on the weekend.

Not true in the context of dynamic languages. The constant factor for persistent maps in that context is quite small.

Re: An immutable operating system

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Is there a list of research / alternative operating systems anywhere? I don't know how an OS would qualify to get on the list other than not DOS, Windows, OSX (or any of the Apple OSs), Linux (especially not 'ubuntu with a different DE'), or the BSDs (i guess there are exceptions if they're on a toaster).

Here is information and links about some unusual operating systems, including several discussed above.

https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursor...

Re: An immutable operating system

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There appears to be no "About" on that site. Who knows what on earth it is? On the left sidebar, the "documentation" link is to a video. No thanks, I'm look for a sentence of text. The next link down is a 404 error. The community link is for insiders...lots of comments about people leaving the building,whatever that means. Bottom of page, how to install. Why am I installing something when I don't know what it is? Sit…

Sorry our site sucks. We released accidentally and are more or less in "semi-stealth mode." You probably shouldn't be interested yet. Unless you like playing with semi-broken stuff. When it's not broken we'll let you know. Urbit is indeed a purely functional OS, not super dissimilar to the OP's project. And it works at least well enough to run a chat server on its own network (which generated all those logs with "lea…

Your video is awesome :) It warped my mind a little bit (in particular the "let's execute some program written next week" part--or did I imagine that), and also made me dig into Borges' works again ;)
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