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What even is an OS now?

310 points · 479 comments · fratellobigio

  1. okdiendiendjefn · · focus · HN ↗
    What it has always been. Nothing has changed in this regard.
    1. tptacek · · focus · HN ↗
      Oh, ok. I guess computer science is finished, then. I should have known. It's not like there's any evidence that it's been blown wide open recently.

      (The irony is that all the reading that's gone into our design is like, old CSAIL papers. Maybe it's true! Maybe everything we're doing is just crate-digging through old settled computer science. That would be on brand. I should find a way to work Athena into it. Maybe we'll use Zephyr for messaging.)

      1. msla · · focus · HN ↗
        This is by and for people who do not distinguish between the UI and the OS, like how "MSIE" is "The Internet" for them.
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