Comment by FirmwareBurner
2 years ago
>I don't know why "incredibly stable" is such a remarkable thing
It's remarkable when you look at the landscape of Linux and Mac device drivers.
Can you run non-kernel drivers for Linux 2.6 on 6.6? Can you install a device driver from 2007 on a modern MacOS? Well, many Windows 7 drivers also work on 11. That's stability.
That's kind of the point I'm trying to make here, an operating system and kernel is supposed to provide you with something stable to build on. It's its raison d'être. Should the stability of a bridge be considered remarkable? No, it's an entire engineering discipline to making stable bridges, because an unstable bridge is useless. The same goes for an operating system and kernel.
> Should the stability of a bridge be considered remarkable?
From a purely engineering perspective, most certainly.
If it isn't so remarkable why doesn't every OS do it?