On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: >> maybe we could dispense with the kernel. >> it's complicated anyway. each application could drive >> hardware itself. but to make this easier, we'll used shared >> libraries. the only system service we'd need is a shared library >> loader.
um, sadly, this *is* the norm nowadays in HPC. And here you all thought you were joking. ron