an operating system that actually understands what's going on
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to unpack this a bit, an operating system which sees more structure than arbitrary byte-array files and arbitrary machine-code programs. Browsers actually are along these lines
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strangely, I'm also interested in the opposite way: an OS that _doesn't_ understand what's going on, i.e. "exterminate all operating system abstractions" go below files & expose raw disk blocks to applications as in Exokernel, so e.g. a DB doesn't need to go through a kernel FS
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there is probably a cool take here around 'legibility' of applications to the operating system and the constraints which that imposes
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