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You're forgetting the dream of MULTICS. Modern MMUs grant each program dominion over its virtual address space and white picket fence like the American Dream. I
by jart 6y ago
You're forgetting the dream of MULTICS. Modern MMUs grant each program dominion over its virtual address space and white picket fence like the American Dream. It doesn't inhibit cooperation between program processes which can totally happen over IPC or network mechanisms. Sort of like how you don't need a farm in your backyard to eat food. You just go to the food store and pay them money. What you appear to want is a collective farm where code is reorganized into a communal state where no boundary is sacred and that MMU you paid good money for isn't worth the silicon on which its printed.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoReinventing QNX will be cutting edge for decades.
- jart 6y agoWhich reinvented 5ESS MERT which was the intended purpose of UNIX, which reinvented MULTICS. It's about more than real time reliable systems though. It's about software freedom too. Ask yourself: "Am I authorized to pick an arbitrary pointer address, and store what I want there?" If the answer is "no, you can't, because some DLL or SO or DYLIB file might have been randomly loaded there" then you are not using a Free as in Freedom operating system.