Tanenbaum was wrong as fuck. That whole design is seen as anachronistic today. HURD is a good example of the folly of trying to fight the hardware like that. KVM is an example of the right way. And "the future" is seamless kernels where there is no division between kernelspace and userspace which is an even more thorough "you're a moron" thrown his way. No one even wants to be associated with those ideas anymore - Microsoft quietly stopped mentioning the NT "microkernel" (it never was, they just liked saying it) and now only talks about Hyper-V.
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Nicholas Bell
Would UNIX be considered a meme had Commodore GPL'd AmigaOS just before crashing with no survivors?
Angel Long
I wasn't implying he was wrong.
I am going to ask for a massive [citation needed] on that one, in the growing concern for system security such a concept is like a Dresden firebombing sized dumpster fire.
Except for all the groups giving huge amounts of money to Data61 and all the people and companies which are developing products using the seL4 microkernel.
That's because Microsoft is 170,000 monkeys typing on keyboards with maybe a few hundred competent engineers, they can't make such a thing work because it requires people who actually understand the entire system stack.
Liam Walker
Because signals have to be debounced to correct for voltage overshoot/undershoot, which is obviously much easier and faster with a binary system. For this reason, analog (or non-binary digital) systems must be slower:
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John Russell
Huh, you aren't just LARPing a leftist faggot, you actually are one. No more (you)s for you, go home.
Connor Harris
You're all stuck in the past and none of you are working to make the tools better. Talk Talk Talk no Work! Wannabe techies. Wake the FUCK up people ...
Hunter Williams
It's a lot easier to just drive transistors into saturation than to worry about discrete levels, and accurately reproduce those levels throughout the IC.
Isaiah Peterson
ever heard of audiophilac electronics and "hifi"? accuracy and precision are exponentially expensive. you save a lot of money by limiting your precision to "on" and "off". it's not only the cheapest, but also the fastest.
Oliver Perez
You would have 10kW cooler on your CPU. At 1V there would be ~4V drop across the transistor which means 4V x current of heat losses. Which is also why modern CPUs don't run on 5 or 3.3V. It also complicates the design. How would 5 voltage level AND even look like? How do you even define AND for 5 values? Inputs equal at same voltage levels? That's just shit ton of comparators + references, not practical or simple at all.
Jayden Thompson
How dangerous would be using an empty case as a barbecue be? Serious question.