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Ring 0 is genuinely fun. Cooperative multitasking is super easy to write for and reason about. Having a known fixed screen resolution makes designing UIs much e
by com2kid 6y ago
Ring 0 is genuinely fun. Cooperative multitasking is super easy to write for and reason about. Having a known fixed screen resolution makes designing UIs much easier.
Sure it all sucks for the users, but if you are a programmer I encourage you to once in your life deep dive into old school coding on a machine that you control completely. You can pump out powerful code so much faster! It is a serious 2x-3x speedup.
Until another process trashes your memory because flat memory layouts don't offer any protection. That sucks. But up until then, lots of fun!
- jedimind 6y agoI would love to understand the special file format terry created, which allowed him to insert the animated icons into what is essentially just an ASCII file.