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People have this idea that legacy code or hardware is some huge burden but due to continuous progress in scale the relative size of legacy code or hardware shri
by goombanast 3y ago
People have this idea that legacy code or hardware is some huge burden but due to continuous progress in scale the relative size of legacy code or hardware shrinks over time. There might be some exception (e.g. physical connectors) but otherwise you can pretty much include the entirety of a 1995 PC computer (chips and firmware, OS, etc.) inside a tiny, tiny package.
The attack surface it leaves open is a different story.
- bcantrill 3y agoSo, I don't disagree in the abstract -- but in this case, the presence of these abstractions are functioning as real obstacles with respect to platform enablement, and we found it be a tremendous win to not only eliminate the abstractions entirely.[0] [0] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-not-to-open-it-the-need-for-holistic-systems/ https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...