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Re:WebGPU Fundamentals by z3t4 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:23AM (#35580411)
The browser is basically an OS ontop of an OS ontop of. .. turtles all the way down
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Re:WebGPU Fundamentals by CyberDildonics on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:17AM (#35580832)
The browser is basically an OS ontop of an OS ontop of. .. turtles all the way down

The OS runs on hardware, what do you think is below the OS you're running?

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Re:WebGPU Fundamentals by reaperducer on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:26AM (#35580907)
The OS runs on hardware, what do you think is below the OS you're running?

Even excluding VMs, there are a lot of OSes running in a modern computer. Some chips have their own. BIOSes and Secure Enclave, networking chips, and probably a dozen more.

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Re:WebGPU Fundamentals by CyberDildonics on Saturday April 15, 2023 @12:01PM (#35581838)
Try to understand the context of more than one comment at a time if you can. This person said "it's turtles all the way down" because there are two layers, the browser and the OS, which is ridiculous.
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Re:WebGPU Fundamentals by reaperducer on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:16PM (#35582539)
Try to understand the context of more than one comment at a time if you can.

Try not to be a condescending dickweed, if you can.

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Re:WebGPU Fundamentals by krylon on Saturday April 15, 2023 @11:40AM (#35581616)
Intel has its ME which last I heard runs Minix, AMD has the PSP, though I don't know what kind of software that runs.
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