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17 // Rethink the OS with Jason Yuan

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The Path Dependent Question in Operating Systems

Operating systems are, by definition, very general and complex. Is about being able to host other programmes. And it's the nature of complex things that they inevitably arise from simple things. So i would put the web rowser in this category. I started as a ap on we no windows and mack and so on, but now it's basically tall or the platform. Or you see, basically a small kernel of fixed aps evolved into a platform sit o the io s store. To get to the place you want to be, you need a vision.

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