Comment by skydhash
9 hours ago
> 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