Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b...
by marcosdumay on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:07PM
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The idea does indeed come from the 80's, but things didn't evolve past them. The architecture of our current OSes was settled at the 60's and early 70's, and we never moved from it.
It is not clear why such things were never adopted. There were many licensing problems on the way, and a Microsoft monopoly pushing things into even older architectures than the competition. There were also failed modern projects, but there is little evidence to decide if it is a hard problem, greed people forced everybody into a worse path, or if it is something people do not want.
It is not clear why such things were never adopted. There were many licensing problems on the way, and a Microsoft monopoly pushing things into even older architectures than the competition. There were also failed modern projects, but there is little evidence to decide if it is a hard problem, greed people forced everybody into a worse path, or if it is something people do not want.