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> > Ooh - I dunno - If you lend me 1000 engineers, we should be done in about 10 years, cos we're really smart and don't need to implement legacy SCSI support..
by daenney 10y ago
> > Ooh - I dunno - If you lend me 1000 engineers, we should be done in about 10 years, cos we're really smart and don't need to implement legacy SCSI support...
Correct, they don't:
> From piecing together information from the online documentation and source code, we can surmise that Fuchsia is a complete operating system for PCs, tablets, and high-end phones.
Their baseline isn't hardware from 40 years ago, it's that of today and only a subset of it. That means that you can forego an enormous amount of things which are all potential sources of problems. The world has evolved a lot, new theories around OS design and security have come and gone.
Just because Linux serves us well doesn't mean we shouldn't explore other options, or that those other options need to support every old data exchange format and hardware port.