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Re:Minoca OS: A new open source operating system by mycall on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:04AM (#12843550)
> have an OS try to muck about with encodings

Hardware encode/decode often requires DMA capabilities. There are many optimizations that kernel mode can bring.

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Re:Minoca OS: A new open source operating system by john_reel on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:45AM (#12844583)
x86 has string instructions that do not require DMA. Nobody needs to hardware accelerate string decoding and encoding though...
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Re:Minoca OS: A new open source operating system by pdonis on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:14AM (#12843588)
> Hardware encode/decode

Of text?

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Re:Minoca OS: A new open source operating system by braveo on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:01PM (#12856204)
but is it webscale?
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