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The sad thing is what Jonathan Blow said - every program will run the same on the same cpu anywhere. It's just the OS that gets in the way that we have to deal
by indulona 2y ago
The sad thing is what Jonathan Blow said - every program will run the same on the same cpu anywhere. It's just the OS that gets in the way that we have to deal with.
- coffeebeqn 2y agoHow would you run multiple applications at the same time created by various developers without an OS or something that end up looking like a OS?
- lupusreal 2y agoI think you're taking that too literally, he's not advocating against the use of OSes.
- mariusor 2y agoI don't think Blow or parent imply there's no need for an OS, but that the instructions the CPU executes eventually are the same no matter the OS that executed the binary.
- j_maffe 2y agoYeah but what's the relevance of this statement? You still need an OS at the end of the day, don't you?
- mariusor 2y agoI think the idea is that the convention of different executable formats each with their own loader should be abandoned in favour of something closer to the machine representation. Frankly I haven't done anything that low level to be able to say how much merit this has, but on a surface level it sounds reasonable.