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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by galangalalgol on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:14AM (#33404680)
With the advent of any-arch binaries, and fast emulation (qemu wasm), it probably won't matter if it is x86 or not.
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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by pjmlp on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:46AM (#33405611)
Why advent? That was already standard on OpenSTEP.
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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by galangalalgol on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:43AM (#33406433)
Can you explain? I vaguely recall using it on sparc workstations a couple decades ago, but I wasn't coding for that target. A quick wiki read says it was an API framework that was "endian free" and that it trageted the three architectures that next ran on. Was it doing emulation for software using it? Or was it, itself a single binary? Or both?
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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by pjmlp on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:03PM (#33407725)
You had all binaries on the same executable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O

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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by pasc1878 on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:02AM (#33406752)
And NeXTStep OpenSTEP's predecessor had already implemented it.
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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by pjmlp on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:02PM (#33407707)
Might have been, I mentioned OpenSTEP, because NeXTSTEP didn't need to be cross platform, that requirement only came to be with the former.
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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by pasc1878 on Monday October 31, 2022 @01:10PM (#33408953)
NeXTStep was cross architecture I ran and compiled Objective-C code on HPPA, i386 and 68000 machines. I suspect I built for SPARC as well
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Re:RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel by pjmlp on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:29PM (#33410347)
I stand corrected.
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