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Wilfred Hughes

Jan 10, 2016 at 13:31

Another great post by @Ngnghm, this time discussing why kernels are poor abstraction: https://ngnghm.github.io/blog/2015/11/28/chapter-6-kernel-is-as-kernel-does/

Chapter 6: Kernel Is As Kernel Does

I admitted to Ngnghm (whom I call "Ann") that I was perplexed by Houyhnhnm computing systems (I pronounce "Houyhnhnm" like "Hunam"). To better understand them, I wanted to know what their kernels, libraries and applications looked like. There again, he su...