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No. Excel/Docs is user-facing. Most of the way is enough, people will figure out the edge cases or just give up on them. To be viable as an OS, you have to supp
by staunton 3y ago
No. Excel/Docs is user-facing. Most of the way is enough, people will figure out the edge cases or just give up on them. To be viable as an OS, you have to support applications. An application running on your OS won't go "well, I guess this syscall doesn't work. I'll try to go around it somehow"...
- Anonbrit 3y agoIf you're writing your own libc, then you absolutely can work around a whole bunch of missing syscalls by emulating them in userspace