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Re:Linux's SystemV Filesystem Support Being Orphaned by pjmlp on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:07PM (#34839797)
"An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." – Dan Ingalls

That is the beauty of hypervisors, just enough abstraction for a portable language runtime.

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Re:Linux's SystemV Filesystem Support Being Orphaned by msla on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:48PM (#34842677)
> That is the beauty of hypervisors, just enough abstraction for a portable language runtime.

Right. Which means they're not microkernels. Which is my point.

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Re:Linux's SystemV Filesystem Support Being Orphaned by pjmlp on Saturday February 18, 2023 @05:43AM (#34845826)
What do you call seL4?
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