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LISP finally rises again (my 1975 LISP was code, this LISP is ... read on)

but first, skipping LISP and doing ... read on

VL2 = Virtual Layer 2 (virtualize datalink layer 2)

where::= @datacenter

old way: :=
serveripaddress <<<>>> clientipaddress (network layer 3)
macaddress <<<>>> macaddress (datalink layer 2)

problem::=
macaddress:ipaddress mapped with ARP (Address Resoution Protocol) broadcast

*** scale breaks after some point since clouds xx times servers in the old days

It seems that a very large piece of something divides into a bunch of small pieces of something. These small pieces of something then get replicated somewhere that has some code that makes more pieces of something that is different. These new pieces of something combine into more pieces of something that join the collection of all the pieces of something that cycle through this process for, like, forever. Sometimes, some of these pieces of something just disappear when they fail to enhance the collective good of all the pieces of something.

It seems that our individual power generation (candles and whatnot) was largely made irrelevant by the public power grid. Now, we are moving towards a more individual power generation model with solar, wind, bio diesel and whatnot. Albeit, consumer costs are still evolving.

Plato

Yup, the OS(es) are now bloated. If we do the cloud right and abstract away the OS (into some deep dark space below) then popping out the OS and replacing it with something better (that does not morph into another bloated something) would be a cloud (IaaS) provider issue. Obviously, the PaaS could be that “abstraction” layer. But then, whose PaaS could that be?

Upon reviewing Chrome OS I find that it has Chrome (the browser) with some "windowing" along with a Linux kernel. I always thought (at least after my Operating Systems Theory classes in the mid 70s) that Linux is an OS. So, what the heck is Chrome OS (an OS within an OS?). Seems like everything is an OS after all. It does get sticky when androids come along too with a baby kernel (Linux anyone?).