> Am I off base? Yes. There is still plenty of work to be done in the OS research space. There has to be software interfaces and API's to all this new hardware

> Am I off base? Yes. There is still plenty of work to be done in the OS research space. There has to be software interfaces and API's to all this new hardware. I also think there is a lot to be learned from using micro/hybrid systems which are much more composable. e.g. Plan 9 is a great example of a hybrid system which makes use of a singular protocol, 9P, to serve all objects in the system to userspace. It is hybrid because some parts are in-kernel to avoid the overhead of system calls such as IP, and TLS. Another interesting design aspect is how the in-kernel drivers are minimal mostly acting as a 9P interface to the hardware logic. This way you A. turn a machine object like a pointer or record into a seekable file and B. secured that file using standard unix permissions and C. can easily distribute the components across machines via a network. Now you can securely push the driver logic into a userspace program. And 9p is network and architecture transparent meaning you can work across multiple machines running on Arm, x86, mips, etc. All this come out of the box. When I go back to Linux/Unix or Windows from Plan 9 its a sad and frustrating time. They're about as flexible as igneous rock. All the features are ad-hoc bolted on in mutually incompatible ways using a myriad of protocols that all do the same thing - serve files/objects. Ugh.