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"Clean-and-simple design." OK. So you like an OS with no meaningful memory segmentation (you could hop into kernel mode by modifying a register), awful multipro
by eropple 6y ago
"Clean-and-simple design." OK. So you like an OS with no meaningful memory segmentation (you could hop into kernel mode by modifying a register), awful multiprocessing support, and absolutely no defense in depth against the truckloads of malware that are all over the Internet?
That's certainly a take.
- saagarjha 6y agoI mean, that also enables a lot of interesting things…
- eropple 6y agoSo does a gallon of nitroglycerin. Also similarly, it shouldn't be mishandled and normal people shouldn't be trusted with it.
- qwerty456127 6y agoIt was totally enough for a personal computer. Certainly not enough for a server. I only ran trusted software and could do whatever I wanted. As for the Internet - it's a browser's job to sandbox the JavaScript.
- eropple 6y agoSo no defense in depth and an uncritical reliance on browsers to be perfect?