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The 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 softw
by ttflee 9y ago
The 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