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Re:“Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simu... by kmiroslav on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @12:45PM (#11995258)
It's easy to do this when you don't need to interact with the outside world and you don't even care about memory protection.
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Re:“Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simu... by kedean on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:55PM (#11998519)
If by 'outside world' you mean legacy systems, then ok, that's valid, but there's not really any reason that idea couldn't be portable across systems, as long as they support common encodings. I fail to see how a ring-0 memory model factors in at all.
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