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I hate hardware. Hardware is the thing that prevents microkernels with carefully distributed functions. But hardware is still land where dragons are, therefor

by ilyak 17y ago

I hate hardware. Hardware is the thing that prevents microkernels with carefully distributed functions. But hardware is still land where dragons are, therefore you have to do everything with it in kernel-space (it's unsafe and isn't delegatable mostly). If hardware would soon die and we'd be programming on the turing machine, we'd get microkernel OSes in no time!

mseebach 17y ago
> If hardware would soon die and we'd be programming on the turing machine, we'd get microkernel OSes in no time! That'd be da bomb.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  > "in no time" > That'd be da bomb. Actually, it would be a singularity.
- mseebach 17y ago
  It's a joke: (one of) Turings enigma-decrypting machines at Bletchley Park was nicknamed "Bombe". (and it was a mechanic brute-force attack, far from a Turing-machine)
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