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The browser is basically an OS ontop of an OS ontop of. .. turtles all the way down
by z3t4 4y ago
The browser is basically an OS ontop of an OS ontop of. .. turtles all the way down
- CyberDildonics 4y agoThe browser is basically an OS ontop of an OS ontop of. .. turtles all the way down The OS runs on hardware, what do you think is below the OS you're running?
- reaperducer 4y agoThe OS runs on hardware, what do you think is below the OS you're running? Even excluding VMs, there are a lot of OSes running in a modern computer. Some chips have their own. BIOSes and Secure Enclave, networking chips, and probably a dozen more.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoTry to understand the context of more than one comment at a time if you can. This person said "it's turtles all the way down" because there are two layers, the browser and the OS, which is ridiculous.
- reaperducer 4y agoTry to understand the context of more than one comment at a time if you can. Try not to be a condescending dickweed, if you can.
- krylon 4y agoIntel has its ME which last I heard runs Minix, AMD has the PSP, though I don't know what kind of software that runs.