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I 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

I 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 ago
Yeah but what's the relevance of this statement? You still need an OS at the end of the day, don't you?
- mariusor 2y ago
  I 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.
  - caspar 2y ago
    See also https://justine.lol/ape.html https://justine.lol/ape.html
    - mariusor 2y ago
      I was under the impression that APE encapsulates the full binaries for different OSes completely. I don't understand enough about it to be able to tell either way though.