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Not always. Modern computers are like several computers networked into one, if you think about it. Since the DMA, that approach is not valid. Today we have IOMM

by anthk 2y ago

Not always. Modern computers are like several computers networked into one, if you think about it. Since the DMA, that approach is not valid. Today we have IOMMU's. The 9front/plan9 guys are trying to write a kernel (Nix) which wants to exploit every concurrent core of your CPU at crazy scaling levels.

yencabulator 2y ago
"Are trying" is a pretty generous phrase for something that seems to last have been thrown over the fence in one-commit repos about 5 years ago. https://lsub.org/nix/ https://lsub.org/nix/ https://github.com/fjballest/nixMarkIV https://github.com/fjballest/nixMarkIV https://github.com/fjballest/nix.markII https://github.com/fjballest/nix.markII