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		sweetsocks21 on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Theseus: A modern experimental OS written from scr... You might be thinking of the Taos Operating System? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html It had an object oriented assembly language that everything compiled to and it JIT'd/on-fly-compiled code IIRC. Sounded very cool.

_dh54 on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

These things always sound cool.

pjmlp on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

Unfortunely when these things actually suceed on the market, we only get IBM and Unysis mainframes, Android, watchOS and .NET Native/WinRT, which are always a kind of compromise of the whole idea.

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