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You might be thinking of the Taos Operating System? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 http://www.uruk.
by sweetsocks21 6y ago
You might be thinking of the Taos Operating System?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607
http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html
It had an object oriented assembly language that everything compiled to and it JIT'd/on-fly-compiled code IIRC. Sounded very cool.
- CyberRabbi 6y agoThese things always sound cool.
- pjmlp 6y agoUnfortunely when these things actually suceed on the market, we only get IBM and Unysis mainframes, Android, watchOS and .NET Native/WinRT, which are always a kind of compromise of the whole idea.