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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by chubot on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:37PM (#26069078)
Doesn't iOS have some kind of persistent memory abstraction? It seems more like a single level to me.

Safari on iOS saves tons of tab state going back months, but it's not using all your memory, etc. I have never really done iOS programming so I don't know the details.

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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by astrange on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:05PM (#26070109)
That’s called restorable state and it’s better than assuming everything can be always persistent, like Lisp/Smalltalk images did.

For one thing, restarting all the time makes it less fragile. You don’t have to untangle your state that’s been persistent for months if there’s a bug in it.

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