From: james.harris.1@gmail.com   
      
   On 22/03/2023 00:14, Dan Cross wrote:   
   > So, is anyone here actually working on developing real, novel   
   > operating systems on modern hardware here?  It would be   
   > interesting to have a USENET outlet for such things, which I had   
   > hoped this newsgroup might be, but it seems dominated by other   
   > things.   
   >   
   > 	- Dan C.   
      
   I haven't read the whole thread so someone else may have already made   
   this point but your reference to 'modern hardware' seems to be a curious   
   one. Many of the goals of an OS, AISI, involve providing an abstraction   
   which does two things:   
      
   1. provides a common view of hardware so that programs running under the   
   OS don't have to care about hardware specifics,   
      
   2. allows exploitation of hardware only in so far as not to conflict   
   with point 1.   
      
   Many of the past discussions here have been about coping with hardware   
   differences.   
      
   Am curious, though, if you are still reading what novel modern hardware   
   facilities did you have in mind? (Presumably significantly more than   
   paging and privilege levels, etc.)   
      
      
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   James Harris   
      
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