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Re:The Taos Operating System (1991) by sehugg on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @03:35PM (#9807883)
A GPU driver is a pretty grand abstraction.
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Re:The Taos Operating System (1991) by haberman on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @03:40PM (#9807915)
How so? Yes it provides complex abstractions, but these are not inventions of the software, it is just exporting the abstractions supported by the hardware.
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Re:The Taos Operating System (1991) by monocasa on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:09PM (#9808095)
And in fact the kernel space interface doesn't abstract much at all. All of this Vulkan/Metal/DX12 stuff really looks like someone decided to simply export the kernel level interface in a cleaner way.
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