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Or directly into the cpu. Since there already is a web server in the cpu [1], adding a browser might enable us to run and use web applications without even inst
by no_gravity 9y ago
Or directly into the cpu. Since there already is a web server in the cpu [1], adding a browser might enable us to run and use web applications without even installing an operating system.
[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064 https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064
- ttflee 9y agoThe METAL (proposed by Gary Bernhardt) is not about running in CPU, but running all software in byte code and render native code obsolete, by implementing software process isolation and save the overhead of syscalls, memory mapping and protection rings.
- beagle3 9y agoIBM’s AS/400=eServer is basically implemented this way since 1988 years (some of it going back to 1979). Everything old is new again. (It has 128 but pointers, btw - so it’s future proof for at least 20 more years)
- fasquoika 9y agoThe original bytecode OS is AFAIK the UCSD p-System (from 1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal