The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf]

Re:The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] by agumonkey on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @02:25PM (#17768451)

and according to someone, your Nintendo console too

It's quite crazy to count all the layers

    cpu microcode
    cpu isa
    hypervisor
    os kernel
    userspace api
    browser runtime
    js vm
    application
    your mouse

I want my 386 back

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Re:The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] by pjmlp on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @02:36PM (#17768537)

If you mean the Switch, yes it is a microkernel, so fast enough to play all those flashy Vulkan/NVN games.

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Re:The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] by etatoby on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:32AM (#17771907)

Soon it will be:

    ...
    webassembly vm
    (insert variable height custom stack)
    application
    ...

Sad times.

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Re:The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] by agumonkey on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:29AM (#17772148)

Oh I forgot about wasm. Maybe one day someone will just collapse the whole thing and embed the internet in silicon.

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Re:The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] by mpax on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:20PM (#17777244)

"This, Jen, is the internet."

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