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Re:Project Oberon by pjmlp on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @09:51AM (#24481166)
It hardly any different than Inferno or Android for that matter.
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Re:Project Oberon by nineteen999 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:53PM (#24488058)
Android bundles a Linux kernel, or it won't run, it doesn't expect you to supply your own. It also doesn't try to reinvent DNS or TCP, the VM bytecode format or all the other things that Android leveraged to make itself into a useful platform so quickly.

The other difference is that Android has millions of users, Urbit, not so much.

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Re:Project Oberon by Volt on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:11AM (#24490895)
Inferno can run on bare metal, so I'd say it's different. Urbit -- I'll believe it when I see it.
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