Hah, imagine a system where processes were placed in an arena and they battle it...

davidrusu on Jan 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

Hah, imagine a system where processes were placed in an arena and they battle it out for cpu time. Programmers will not only have to build their applications but also write an AI to protect itself, an IDE could be a fortress where processes could be relatively safe.

digi_owl on Jan 9, 2015 [–]

Darwinian computing?

Or maybe Core War? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War