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by gonehome 1240 days ago
We want to get to native, but you don’t replace the hardware in a day. It doesn’t make sense to build a custom nock cpu until it’s necessary.

For a new system to succeed it has to run on the hardware people have. That’s why there’s a runtime. It is an OS, but there’s an interpreter for the machines of today. If urbit succeeds then running it directly would be the ultimate goal.