Comment by hun3
10 hours ago
The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much.
Only now we're witnessing the consequences much more frequently thanks to accelerated slop.
10 hours ago
The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much.
Only now we're witnessing the consequences much more frequently thanks to accelerated slop.
> The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much.
The OS is a thin layer providing an abstract and consistent interface regardless of the hardware configuration. Policing applications is mostly related to security and resources utilization, not moronic errors.
> The OS is a thin layer providing an abstract and consistent interface regardless of the hardware configuration.
This is called a hardware abstraction layer, not OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction