My initial reaction when reading the title was the same. Their abstract does a better job at explaining what they actually do, and where the connection with an OS comes in:

> To enable using context beyond limited context windows, we propose virtual context management, a technique drawing inspiration from hierarchical memory systems in traditional operating systems that provide the appearance of large memory resources through data movement between fast and slow memory.

Did you think these people just stopped existing when crypto took a dump? Blockchain all the things… LLM all the things!

At least LLMs have a very obvious use from day1… but an OS is not one of them.

You’re probably thinking of a traditional OS. This could be an interesting project though.

Did you read the paper before commenting?

Hey OP, thank you for the post. In this work, we are looking at one particular functionality of an OS - memory management. The project started off motivated by trying to extend context length for a project we were working on. The analogy to OSes came naturally as the project progressed and there was growing similarity to the caching and memory hierarchy relation.