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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by taeric on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:59PM (#37040140)
In a very real sense, the hardware has given a realization of microservice ideas, but at the hardware level. My WIFI card, the common and popular example, probably has more processing power than some of the early desktop computers back in the day. Certainly SSDs are getting much more complicated.

They aren't general purpose, but I presume microkernel "services" would also not be general purpose?

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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by lmm on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:40PM (#37041924)
Often they are general-purpose. There's a blog from maybe 10 years ago of someone launching Linux on a hard drive (it refuses to fully boot because the hard drive doesn't have an MMU, but they get some familiar log output).
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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by taeric on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:06AM (#37044408)
Yeah, I vaguely remembered that, but couldn't find the details in a quick search. So, sadly assumed I may have imagined it. :D
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