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by digi_owl 3504 days ago
Or as i like to call them, DOS-in-a-can...
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nickpsecurity 3504 days ago
That's not fair given DOS was 100% unsafe in architecture and implementation language. The Ocaml or Rust ones are more like the Pascal OS's (eg Solo) with a certain amount of safety built-in. I agree on the minimal part but the overall metaphor doesn't fit.
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paulddraper 3504 days ago
DOS like Denial of Service? Or DOS like MS-DOS?

Either one doesn't make sense to me.

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digi_owl 3504 days ago
the latter.

DOS was a downright minimal layer of code between the software and the hardware.

Little to no memory protection etc.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

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