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More and more people knew less and less about how anything really worked and just cut and pasted crap code that someone else wrote. There were other languages like PL/I, Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Agol, Lisp etc that some people had a lot of code invested in. You have “quick” versions, “Visual” versions and then new compilers so C went another abstraction layer of slowness to C++, then C# where it was really slowed down. Which never was the same between versions. The “Abstration” layer meant you had to have serious programmers doing all the hardware devices (in assembler) and then i/o it with the slower then hell programming language of the day. And nothing was the same as far as keyboards, display, I/O etc. When you moved your operating system from a 68000 to VAX or whatever you had to write all the device dependent code for that machine. The problem with portability is that nothing ever really was all that portable. Its a poor reason now when everything is intel based.

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Any hackaday readers have an idea on how to use an OS stripped down to the ‘bare metal?’ What, exactly, would need 64 bits, and what hardware would it run on?Ĭheck out the Return Infinity team calculating prime numbers on their BareMetal Node OS after the jump. There’s just some questions about the implementation – we feel like we’ve just been given a tool we don’t even know when to use. With projects that are computationally intensive, we think this could be a great bridge between an insufficient AVR, PIC or Propeller and a full-blown linux distro. There’s also ridiculously small system requirements – the entire OS is only 16384 bytes – lend itself to very small, very powerful computers. We can see why this would be great for really fast embedded computing – there are system calls for networking, sound, disk access, and everything else a project might need. Return Infinity says the ideal application is for high performance and embedded computing. By writing the OS in assembly, runtime speeds are increased, and there’s very little overhead for when every clock cycle counts. The goal of the BareMetal project, which includes a stripped-down bootloader and a cluster computing platform is to get away from the inefficient obfuscated machine code generated by higher level languages like C/C++ and Java.

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The implication of this centers on inapplicability portable or mobile computers and devices in which battery life is a critical consideration.The folks at Return Infinity just released a new version of their BareMetal OS, a 64-bit operating system written entirely in assembly. The fact that it has moving parts means that it needs more power while in operation. On the other hand, because an SSD has no moving parts, it is more durable and thus, more suitable for portable or mobile computers and other devices.Ĥ. Energy inefficiency is another drawback of HDD. The mechanical parts of an HDD, particularly the rotating disk and its magnetic head, can be damaged due to drops and inappropriate handling. Meanwhile, an SSD does not produce any sound because it does not have any moving parts.ģ. Nevertheless, another notable disadvantage of HDD is that it is vulnerable to damages due to physical trauma than an SSD. File transfers are slower as well.Ģ. HDDs produce mechanical sounds that come from the rotation of the disk and movement of the magnetic head while in operation. In application, this means that computers with HDD boot slower than those with SSD. Furthermore, HDDs fragment data due to the rotating nature of its operation. HDDs also have a varying rotation per minute or RPM specifications. 1. A critical disadvantage of a hard disk drive is that it has a slower read-write speed than a solid-state drive because of the mechanical nature of this storage hardware.

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