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by yjftsjthsd-h 2994 days ago
Eh, it's a handy abstraction. There's also no uniform memory space (multiple RAM chips, virtual memory, swap), CPUs absolutely are not the "run one opcode after another" thing that programmers pretend, and by the time you stream HTML from a server to client it's been sliced into a thousand pieces, compressed, encrypted, reordered...

We like abstractions.