Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:12:07 09/04/03
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On September 04, 2003 at 14:58:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 04, 2003 at 11:08:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>> but i have been following the different >>>movements in the linux world for quite some years now. Both linux the OS and >>>the compiler have 1 big advantage and that's portability because it is not >>>hardware dependant. >> >>You are nuts. Can you spell SPARC. Can you spell Alpha? Can you spell PPC? >> >>Do you know _all_ have a different ISA? Do you know that linux runs on all of >>those plus more? >> >>And you say "hardware independent"??? >> >>Totally nuts. > >Uh, I think you are both saying exactly the same thing. > >-- >GCP No. _NO_ O/S is "hardware independent". It is impossible. In fact, the entire purpose of an O/S is to serve as an interface between user applications and the underlying hardware. An O/S has to understand technical hardware details just like a parallel chess program... or even more.
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